I think the keyword in the v1.9 announcement was "major user-facing features". :) Back then we also said:

> We will continue shipping new releases every 6 months with enhancements, bug fixes and improvements.

I would say v1.10 is quite close to this sentiment: a bunch of improvements and enhancements but nothing really major. The main new feature in v1.10 is "compiler tracing" but that will be directly used by a small subset of the community, to improve the tooling, instead of being something everyone would use from the get go.