Litecoin core drops are pretty big developments, people just take it for granted, Which is really naive. Litecoin paces BTC almost step for step.
I don't have the link handy, but you can search Reddit for some top level descriptions of the privacy developments. Some members of the community are disappointed that there isn't a distinct road map for its deployment. I could t care less about the feature, but LTC needs to compete with dash. Since LTC is resistant to branding, it needs to rely on iron clad stability and integrating features such as scalability and privacy enhancements to do so and appeal to new crypto users.