While this is true, I have the same feeling as jmnicolas since Linus released version 3. I guess it's because of the new release numbering scheme. Let's not forget that we had 2.6 for close to 8 years!
I see more posts about it in Hacker News and Reddit, but other than that nothing much has changed since 3.0 regarding version numbering and scheduling and that was in 2011.