I think there are more than enough improvements on trunk[1] to warrant a new release; whether that's called 1.4.0 or 2.0 (which is the current trunk version) doesn't really matter; but more than a year and a half since the last release, it really is time for a new one.
I'd be happy to do the RM tasks if necessary. Thoughts? -- Brane [1] I'm aware of: * HTTP/2 * OCSP client request and response handling * Brotli compression * Better support for building with OpenSSL 1.0.x/1.1.x and LibreSSL