In their end of the year annual report - Codan (the company which includes Minelab) named only one new product, a bufget gold detector for the African market. Being a publicly traded company, they are obliged to inform shareholders of the coming year's goals and they have a history of pre-announcing new products that way. Here's what,they wrote
"In response to customer demand, two new products are planned for release in FY17. A larger coil for the GPZ 7000® will give a significant depth increase over the standard coil. In addition to this, an entry-level gold detector will be released to the Africa market at the end of 2016. This product has been specically designed for the African market to fill a gap in our product range, and is expected to quickly take market share from competitors. "