Hi @mrblomblom,
checking 3.8-15 (next stable) related forum thread you’ll probably notice there’s been lot of coding on Jun-Jul, a little stop on August (I say mainly because of holidays) and back to code on Sep-Oct (Please check pending pull requests over Github, that 99.9% will be on next stable).
Checking forum thread you’ll also notice @suman had desire to wait for a new stable while having some major tasks completed.
Hope this answer (while waiting for @suman talk) will satisfy your asking 