People hop onto HN and upvote the things that are interesting. If a Perl release is the only interesting thing, then so be it. You could borrow a meme from slashdot.org and call it a 'slow news day.' (I realize that the phrase is older than slashdot)
While it's disappointing that you don't get to use a newer perl at work, you should still be able to play with most of the shiny modules. There's plenty of CPAN authors still happy to do the legwork to make that so, because we don't want to exclude a bunch of people just because their perl5 VM sucks.
The next release is due soon and this includes some heavy refactoring so will be a lot quicker: http://rakudo.org/2011/08/19/rakudo-2011-08-release-status/ & http://rakudo.org/2011/09/09/nom-branch-default/