Dark side of Open Source - Who needs a new release?

I read in the ibatis home page:

(June 12, 2007) Next month, on July 1st iBATIS will officially be 5 years old, and 2.0 alone will be 3 years long in the tooth. It’s time, or perhaps overdue that we start designing and implementing the third version. A lot has changed in 5 years, many best practices are now simply “old practices”. It’s time to start from scratch. Clinton’s thoughts are up. This is your chance to influence the future direction of iBATIS.