Ooooh, of course this is .ten after .nine. I saw it and thought "0.10? they're only up to a point one release? they've been working on this for ages!"

yes but the plan sounded like v0.9 to v1.0

The plan is no new _features_ until 1.0. There was a good backlog of _bug_ fixes that were made since 0.9, so it made sense to push out an update with those, while continuing to work towards the eventual 1.0 release.