whats going on with the price?
It's increasing a lot and gradually.
5 days ago was around 0.006 - 0.008 btc
Now it's between 0.010 - 0.013 in a new period of accumulation until the next release in April

What is new in the release?
A lot of things as the out of beta phase, gui wallets with pos mining and voting for all OS, first voting on mainnet, press campaign, a new puzzle from coin_artist, the start of lightning network implementation after the first vote on the main net, etc...