I don't know enough about how the available updates report checks for releases to know why this is, but when you visit it (/admin/reports/updates), it indicates that no available releases can be found. See screenshot attached. No other module out of the 100 or so I have installed on my test site behave this way.

Since this will prevent people from knowing when new releases are available, it seems like a pretty major bug.

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Issue summary: View changes
Priority: Major » Normal
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

The latest version available is 6.x-1.0-rc2. (See the list of all the releases.) Until a new release is not created (6.x-1.0-rc3, for example), Drupal will not report there is a new release.
You could use the 6.x.1-x development snapshot, but that is just two commits forward, and it is a development snapshot.

I am closing the issue as works as designed. The module code doesn't need to do anything, for new releases to be reported.