There are over 500 commits merged to master since the last release. The community is actively contributing but these changes don't get to the end user because the maintainers are not releasing them.
Bugs get reported and closed because they are fixed in master every day, wasting not only the end users time but also that of the people actively working on the project.
Bugs get reported and closed because they are fixed in master every day, wasting not only the end users time but also that of the people actively working on the project.