Clojure 1.9: Spec.
Clojure 1.10: datafy/nav + tap> which has spawned a whole new set of tooling for exploring data.
Clojure 1.11: portable math (clojure.math, which also works on ClojureScript).
Clojure 1.12: huge improvements in Java interop.
And, yes, the new CLI and deps.edn, and tools.build to support "builds as programs".
Things have surely happened and the language has improved, but would you consider any of this to be innovative?
And we can look forward to Jank https://jank-lang.org/