Minor updates. Moving over to DaVinci Resolve Studio, as I am tired of spending $199 for trivial updates, new fonts (!), and bug-fixes to what is still crash-prone software. I have used Vegas Pro since version 11.

VEGAS Pro 18

• Dedicated Motion Tracking Panel
• Tracking information for position-aware OFX plug-ins
• Artificial intelligence: Style Transfer
• Artificial intelligence: Colorization
• Dockable Color Grading Panel
• More efficient Color Grading Panel UI
• Logarithmic exposure tool in Color Grading panel
• Improved auto-contrast in Color Grading panel
• Skin tone line for Vectorscope 
• Combined RGB display for RGB Parade video scope
• Redesigned Plug-in windows
• Powerful plug-in search
• Third-party plug-in filtering
• Plug-in favorites
• Hardware encoding for Intel HDR presets
• Metadata-based selection of HDR IDTs
• Support for full range colors in 8 bit projects
• Automatic GPU driver detection
• Auto GPU configuration for hardware acceleration
• Video Noise reduction 
• Flicker removal filter
• M4V and M4A format support
• Configurable Capture Folder for VEGAS Capture
• Improved Video Engine performance
• Performance and stability improvements for VEGAS Capture
• Project location persistence
• Exportable/importable Preferences
• Detailed render progress dialog
• Incremental project save
• Event Trim handles
• Modern Kinetic Titles and Text presets
• Black Bar Filler filter
• 30 unique Fonts

VEGAS Effect 2.0

• New mask shapes allow you to create and customize Rounded Rectangle, Polygon, and Star shaped masks.
• The new Auto Stabilizer effect provides easy smoothing of motion in handheld video clips.
• Added a Motion Track effect, for easily attaching a timeline object to a specific element in the scene.
• The Crop / Pan & Zoom effect allows you to crop the contents of a clip, and animate the crop to control which area is shown.
• Added the Color Adjustment effect to allow a range of selected colors to be shifted.
• Added the GoPro FX Reframe effect, for fully customizing the framing of your 360º footage.
• The Text tool now allows multiple customizable outlines.
• Added the ability to export audio using the WAV format.

VEGAS Image 2.0

• The text system has been rebuilt from the ground up, allowing you to have different font styles within the same block of text. We've also added new font options including text outline, subscript, superscript, margins, and more.
• A new integration with VEGAS Pro has been added, which allows VEGAS Pro load VEGAS Image projects. 
• A "Healing Brush" effect has been added, which lets you quickly heal areas of your image using a source point and a brush.
• A "Clone Stamp" effect has been added, which enables you to clone parts of your image using a brush.
• A "Dynamic Contrast" effect has been added, which allows you to selectively apply contrast to the small, medium, and large details of your image. 
• A "Split toning" effect has been added, with a bespoke UI, which allows you to rapidly apply two colors to the highlight and shadow tones in your image.
• A "Gradient Map" effect has been added, which allows you to blend a gradient across the tones in your image.

Download Links

• VEGAS Pro 18: DE/EN/FR/ES: https://rdir.magix.net/?page=A4JWYWG4AHUC
• VEGAS Effects 2.0: INT: https://rdir.magix.net/?page=0FKVNVB05RK6
• VEGAS Image 2.0: INT: https://rdir.magix.net/?page=LF0TNWW459FM

@EspenB

But it is big question if this day will be before this project closure or after :-)

New update

Build 387

New Features

• Trials of VEGAS POST
• Auto-update mechanism for VEGAS POST
• HDR-specific Intel QSV templates for HEVC renders
• Option to select color histogram for White Balance tools
• Render template for 360 5.7k projects
• Webcam video capture is now available in the VEGAS Capture utility
• Mouse cursor capture is now available in the VEGAS Capture utility

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where some Video FX parameters that use a text field could not contain more than 4000 characters
• VEGAS POST can now be activated on systems running Windows 10 Home without running as an administrator
• Change mechanism for activating VEGAS POST to be more user friendly
• Saturation and Luminance controls in the Color Grading Panel now match the HSL plugin
• Issue where some media had low playback performance after video stabilization analysis has been fixed
• Issue where some CPUs were not properly identified has been resolved
• Resetting the mesh in Mesh Warp will no longer clear animation data
• Problem with stepping through frames on projects with high frame rates has been resolved
• The time display will no longer go blank when cancelling out of the custom color selection dialog
• Window layout will return properly to previous state when exiting Color Grading mode
• WMV files will preview properly when using hardware decoding
• Mesh will properly adjust when preview resolution has changed
• Will no longer crash when Mesh Warp is handling an empty frame
• Fix to help prevent crash when editing an event
• Fix to prevent crash on startup when some third party scripts are read in at opening of the application
• Korean characters are properly handled in the RenderAs dialog and Insert Subtitles dialog
• Fix for crash when Warp Flow Transition is applied to some events
• Motion Tracker will no longer crash for some older CPUs
• Project Location button in the Render As dialog is now grayed out when the project has not been saved
• Audio and Video tracks imported from VEGAS Capture will now be more accurately synchronized
• Various stability fixes for VEGAS Capture

I do not know how many "developers" are still working on Vegas, but I do know they are soliciting advice from users on what new features are most wanted.

Usual Vegas

VEGAS Pro 17 Update 1 with lot of bug fixed

New Features

• The Bézier tool's motion tracking has been upgraded to track perspective change allowing for more effective planar tracking
• Navigation to exact timeline markers through typing the marker number on the keyboard number row now supports three-digit marker numbers
• An option for opening a media file in VEGAS Post has been added to the event hamburger button
• The VEGAS Screen Capture utility now provides the ability to save a capture project file which can then be imported into VEGAS Pro so that all captured media is imported onto the timeline on separate tracks and synchronized for instant editing
• An extension has been added to automatically adjust the length of an event after applying a playback rate change with the Slow Motion OFX plug-in
• The Warp Flow transition has been optimized to provide interesting results with a wider variation between the video clips involved and more gracefully defaults to a crossfade in extreme cases where warp flow calculations cannot be made
• The Video Stabilizer now automatically determines and uses the most suitable reference frame for freeze motion mode
• Uploading to social media sites process now uses the efficient rendering of the MAGIX AVC/AAC file type for faster rendering and uploading process
• The PiP Copy script now supports copying tracked perspective motion from the Bézier tracking information to the PinP plug-in
• Menu options for opening a file in FXhome HitFilm have been consolidated for more understandable presentation
• Several improvements and refinements have been made to the Smart Split feature including the addition of a preference that enables the user to change the default transition length
• VEGAS Pro now supports NVENC-based lossless encoding templates on qualifying Nvidia hardware

Bug Fixes

• Unreasonably long load times for large projects with many events have been eliminated
• The splitter between the preview and audio waveforms in the Trimmer window has been restored so it is possible again to change the height of the audio waveform area.
• Stabilization crash on certain files eliminated
• Custom NVENC templates from earlier version of VEGAS Pro can now properly be used for render
• Text editor button icon display problem corrected
• Edge cropping of the Video Scopes window no longer occurs
• User is no longer prompted for new instance or clone when creating nested timeline with generated media
• Controls are no longer overlapped in the uploading to social media dialogs
• the Bézier Masking plug-in now correctly updates for shape and location changes
• Use GPU processing for ACES color management preference artifacts eliminated
• Color Grading Panel controls that could disappear under certain specific actions now properly remain
• Custom values entered for the Pixel Aspect Ratio media property media in the Media tab of the Media Properties dialog are no longer inadvertently erased and ignored
• Adjusting overlap time of the Warp Flow transition no longer causes the software to hang on playback
• Mouse clicks in the Project Media window list view now properly selects the clicked-upon media
• Smart Split procedure is now properly identified in the Undo drop-down list
• The Picture-in-picture script no longer produces an error if the user attempts to run it without first creating tracking information
• A crash upon opening VEGAS Pro after closing the application with a saved project has been eliminated
• You can now undo adding the Color Grading Panel plug-in to an event
• Replacing a Main Timeline storyboard item that is a duplicate no longer removes all items that reference the same media
• Slow motion artifacts when processing with the CPU have been eliminated
• Warp Flow transition now properly stores the necessary tracking data
• It's now possible to properly apply different edge filling across different events
• No longer crash upon attempting to load older, unsupported Boris Continuum plug-ins
• Creating a nested timeline no longer deletes markers or regions from the parent timeline
• Various translation problems have been fixed in different international versions
• Hover scrub no longer crashes or stops working after an undo/redo of a media replace or delete action
• A one-pixel "jump" between the stabilization freeze mode reference frame and the following frame has been eliminated
• Double-clicking a file in the Explorer now properly adds media to a selected unassociate storyboard
• Events are now placed in the proper order after adding duplicates to the Main Timeline storyboard
• The Picture in Picture plug-in now works properly during playback and render after copying motion tracking information to it
• No more green frames for 422 AVC MP4s during NVDEC hardware decoding
• Windowed HDR preview now properly updates during render
• ACES version and ACES color space properties changes no longer persist when user cancels changes in the Properties dialog box
• Image adjustments are now properly applied when Slow Motion is used as a video output effect
• A warning message is now properly presented when the user attempts to prerender a video without first choosing a render template
• Some render templates that showed the wrong vendor information have been corrected
• The X and Y Location sliders now properly adjust the location values when animating location settings for various plug-ins
• Several minor UI problems have been addressed
• The Color Grading panel is now properly disabled when more than one video event are selected
• Many corrections have been made to the application help
• Project Media context menu command Remove from Project now does what it's supposed to do
• Color Grading mode parameters are properly read when reopening the project
• Audio/Video synchronization problems that could occur in HDR projects have been resolved
• Several Hi-DPI UI issues have been eliminated
• A problem that could cause a crash on playback or render in a project with Event Pan/Crop mask keyframes has been solved
• An issue that caused MP3 files not to play back on certain machines has been removed
• Hi-DPI preview no longer clips on a secondary monitor
• AVC playback on some machines that displayed poor performance have been improved
• Various improvements have been made which apply the new UI look to older components

Finally there are some GPU improvements.

From their forum post

We've made comprehensive workflow improvements, such as Nested Timelines that provide the power to better organize complex and long-form projects. The new Color Grading panel streamlines the workflow in a quick, efficient and logical process. Another highlight of the new version is the optical-flow slow motion for incredibly smooth slow motion. Optical flow technology that analyzes one frame to the next and then creates intermediary frames between them.

If you crave more details, here you can see all new features:

• Nested Timelines This is a further development of the existing nested projects functionality. Where a nested project has to be opened in a second instance of VEGAS Pro for editing, with the nested timelines it is now possible to create and edit a "project-inside-a project" directly from the timeline.
• Color Grading window: Several color-related Video Event FX (including Input LUT, Color Wheels, Color Curves,HSL, White Balance and many more) are combined in a dedicated screen area that is easily shown or hidden with a toolbar button. To save you a lot of clicks it can stay open to apply the desired color grading to the different events, instead of opening each event's FX chain and loading the color FX separately.
• LUT Export: Save all color effects from an effect chain as a CUBE file with the Save LUT button in the Plug-in chooser window.
• Improved Storyboard functionality: You can add the same piece of media to a single storyboard, and thumbnails reflect the in point of the media that is used in the timeline.
• Warp Flow transition/Smart Split: The Warp Flow transition automatically fixes jump cuts by synthesizing movement. The Smart Split command cuts out parts of an event and applies the Warp Flow transition to conceal the cut.
• Mesh Warp plug-in for creative deformation of your footage, or, when you set the grid size to 1x1 it gives you four corner points to quickly conform your video to a non-rectangular four-sided surface.
• Lens Correction plug-in to compensate distortions from wide-angle lens systems as used in action cams.
• HDR Color support enhancements
• GPU-based processing
• Windowed HDR Preview (preview in the Video Preview window)
• HDR Specific color grading
• HLG support
• Stabilization improvements: Using the Video stabilization is now also possible at event level, when used on event level it is possible to visualize the motion tracks of the stabilization.
• Collaboration Center: Attach notes to your project if you want to hand it to someone else. The notes can be tagged as "resolved", resolved notes can be hidden.
• Automatic Slideshow Creator: Create a Slideshow of a desired length from a folder or selection of pictures.
• Adjustable Color temperature enhancement to White Balance plug-in.
• Audio synchronization for multicam: Synchronize Multicam footage by analyzing and matching the audio track of the recordings.
• 8k support : You can add 8k to your project now when using proxy files.
• New Formats:
  • Experimental MKV support.
  • 10 bit intermediate format
  • ProRes 4444 files with embedded alpha channels
  • NVENC 10-bit HEVC rendering
  • Hardware decoding for AVC and HEVC
• User Interface improvements:
  • You'll get a warning when you delete a track that has events on it.
  • Hi-DPI interface improvements: The High DPI mode is now defaulted to on for VEGAS Pro17
  • You can display the Event length on the header of timeline events. Find it in the hamburger menu for each event or under the View menu.
  • Temporarily ignore event grouping when moving an event: Hold both the left and right mouse buttons as you drag an event to move it independently from other group members.
  • There's a new indicator on an event to show if Media FX have been applied to the media the event holds (find it in the event hamburger menu)
  • You will be asked to confirm if you click cancel in a render process.
  • New, task specific, default layouts / Dashboard:Easy editing modes for beginners work with a simplified version of the user interface that show only the most important controls for a step-by-step walk-through from adding media to the final movie, everything put together in the Dashboard window. The Guided Video Creator from the Tool Menu takes you through these steps.
• VEGAS Screen Capture utility: Record video streams from your browser or video game.
• Motion tracking: Track motion in a scene and let other events or text follow the movement.
• Super-smooth slow motion (optical flow and motion estimation) with the VEGAS Slow Motion plug-in
• Bugfixes:
  • Render As dialog box shows the correct disk space when switching disks
  • PreRes files creating with the RED Epic Helium camera are now properly supported