There are still several things to be added/tweaked before the next release is ready to be considered stable.
I really don't want to mess with dev versions if we are close to next stable.
That's a tad paradoxal cause we need more people messing with the dev versions, so more issues get reported and closer we get to the next stable release. 🤗
We normally release in February, but that's when we start working a new version in December. This time we started in July, but we really have no strict roadmap.