The community's support, interest and engagement evolves on project at the same extent as team's activity. It is important now to support saving the price level.
The support by the community is vital, that is why we are working on reaching new audience and other marketing goals in Q2.
Weekly updates or announcement or something similar would be fine too, to inspire users that are already joined. You must work on retaining too, otherwise its useless.
Update that you're talking about is being prepared. As for retaining, you're obviously right; you can ask your questions or for any assistance in any of supported channels.