[bnjmn]

Speaking as a maintainer of large open-source projects, I know what it's like to get stuck working on a release branch (which is sometimes just the `master` branch) that takes forever to become an official release. I'm not sure if that's the story here, but there have been a lot of commits since the last release, so maybe?

In any case, I strongly recommend publishing alpha/beta releases along the way, without the ceremony of an official release, so that folks can give feedback during the long months that fly by when you don't have nearly enough time to spend on the project.

Respect the needs of your conservative users by not publishing official releases until they're really ready, but trust your more engaged users to use whatever you have right now, and let you know what's working/broken, without judgment.