> Secondly, this is just semantics.

It's absolutely not "semantics", because the amount and type of work involved is radically different. Some bug is something I can fix myself with a patch; a new release isn't something I can do at all.

> Fork, update the dependency or whatever reference to it, and submit back as a pull request.

IT HAS ALREADY BEEN FIXED. How many times do I need to repeat this?