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IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee)
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The dual stack firmware was deprecated because of issues, I believe.
It's still marked as experimental, not deprecated, just will likely stay that way. However, it does work with both protocols individually, and the first-use wizard asks you which dedicated firmware you would like to install:
https://support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/articles/26124710072861-Enabling-Thread-support