Grigori Melnik, who has taken over responsibility of GAX and Enterprise Library since my departure from patterns & practices, has spilled the beans on the initial plans for the next version of GAX, which is being called 1.3 internally (but probably won't be once it's shipped). Planned features include:
Fixing the installers for GAX and guidance packages is at the top of my wishlist, so I'm glad the team is heading in the right direction.