The "started component contributions" refers to rWVUIe2204a1578b3: [ProgressBar] Add new progress bar component and rWVUI0b08d121d0f8: [ToggleButton] Add new toggle button component, both of which have been merged.
Are there any other patches that need to be merged before this last release? There are 9 patches currently open at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/project:wvui+status:open, but I expect some of them no longer apply now that we are going to switch to a new library
Also of note, the current wvui ResourceLoader module is still just a wrapper for wvui-search, see T280828: Create a temporary entry for all WVUI components. There is a patch (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/699951) to switch back to using the full bundle, but until that is done the new components added in the release won't be made available.