Ash, the community manager, is currently on vacation, so this seems to have fallen in between the cracks.
I recommend reading through the announcement on steam linked at the bottom as it has more details and explains how to opt into the winter preview(beta).

Official Winter Update is delayed
Hello everyone! We have kept being busy working on the next update and are very excited to present it to all of you. That said, we need to delay the official update to next year. The extra time will allow us to complete and polish the new features, like the house move feature.

For those of you who are most eager to try some of the new features, we are releasing a preview of the Winter update:

Winter Update Preview

Major Changes:

-New status promotion system
-New military system
-New parts in the Keep monument
-New beer production chain
-Visual building and building part preview
-New onboarding quests
-A new weather effect

Patch 1.4.10.1218

Fixes and Improvements:

-discord, Crowdin & mod.io links
-building part highlight during construction
-notification width is now constant
-rain position offset from camera
-terrain physic collider was not matching visual terrain
-a few more engine small fixes
-texture compression quality

Steam announcement: