There was a recent controversy in which the Linux kernel removed some functions which were being used by the ZFS module, but their replacement are "GPL-only" functions which cannot be used by the ZFS module. This release has a workaround for that, so it can be compiled for Linux 5.0.

(IIRC, the original title of this submission had " with Linux 5.0 support" at the end, indicating why this release is newsworthy, but I'm not seeing it anymore.)