i'm going to go out on a limb here...
in response to a recent poll, in which the Nieuport 17 took a distant second to the SPAD XIII, Richard Alexander, as usual, said something to the effect WNW don't want to make a kit that someone else made an acceptable kit of (and no, let's not go down the 'acceptable kit' path again)...
but he also said that like the Camel, the Nieuport 17 could use a 21st century tooling.
so here's the limb: i'm going to speculate that it's already been in the works for a while, and could be this year's Christmas surprise.