Nice performance, and now the wait to sync isn't desperating thinking you are making 0 progress because of the new window that shows remaining blocks.
There is a very trivial way to check what is going on with the synchronization. Help - Debug Console; look whether this number is incrementing:
Full release notes (in case someone missed them, but they are stickied in this section):
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.14/doc/release-notes.md The mentioned performance improvements are described there.