@bastelfreak: A new version has not been released since the end of 2024 and there was a request to get one out. The major version bump was required because of the change in required Puppet version. This should have been in the changelog which I've already flagged earlier this morning with the engineering team.
I do apologize if there were previously some sort of communications done to give a heads up about this, but the majority of the changes in this release have been merged in and available in the main branch for quite some time.