ngl it feels like this game just died, 8 months of no update at all, either theres gonna be a HUGE update or this game is just dead, there not even a notice of saying that you are or arent working on it...
Another one bites the dust ig
If you'll look on the announcements and the attached dates, you'll notice this isn't the first time this dev does this; the game's seemingly been dead for a whole year only for an update to suddenly appear out of nowhere. It's actually this exact pattern that's been going for the last several updates now, at least since 0.19. So if three's a pattern, then this is just indication that an update is coming sometime in the next 3-4 months.
If you look at the timing of previous release announcements you can get an idea of how often they come out.
v0.18: December 18, 2021
v0.19: June 18, 2022
v0.20: May 10, 2023
v0.21: March 18, 2024
v0.22: November 30, 2024
It's obvious that this just has a slow, erratic pace of development; and can go more than a year between updates.
In short, it will come out when it comes out.