Angular 6.1 is in beta now. Work that needs to be done in order to support it:

• Scrolling restoration
  Angular 6.1 introduces a scroll position restoration service. The feature should be researched and, if possible, implemented in NativeScript Angular as well. Useful links: pr, usage.
• Remove global document object.
  In nativescript-angular there's a fake document object, attached to global, because of logic in the Angular animations package. That logic is removed in Angular 6.1 and we no longer need the 'global' document object. This will fix Global 'document' polyfill causes crashes when used with some node packages #1144.

Please comment with any other requests for the nativescript-angular 6.1 release. There's also a milestone with issues that are being reviewed for fixing/implementing in this release. You can vote for these issues as well.