[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

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why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?
I note that distributions including debian are shipping a version of
sane-backends that is really dated. They are missing out on enabling
working devices because of this.... (changes are long since committed
to git ).

I know this is not the fault of sane, however this is causing a large
distance between what sane can do and what sane 'does' as shipped.

Thank you.