In the software world, we cannot say that something is dead until its developer announces that it is abandoning or discontinuing a project. Something like this happened with GParted, the famous partition manager software that, after a while and 15 years after its first release, reached version 1.0. Who has not reached version 1.0 but has risen seven years later have been the S3 Graphics drivers by X.ORG.
It has been no less than seven years since the latest version of the S3 Graphics drivers was released and, after so long, we might have thought that its developers had abandoned the project, but they did not. Yesterday thursday released a new xf86-video-s3 driver update butLike GParted, it has not yet reached version 1.0 of the software, but what they gave us was v0.7.0. The new version follows v0.6.5 which is the one we have had available on Linux since 2012.
Now available new version of the S3 Graphics driver, xf86-video-s3 0.7.0
It was Kavin Brace, an open source contributor known for working on the VIA OpenChrome driver and other "vintage" open source graphics drivers, who released xf86-video-s3 0.7.0, a new version that, as you can read in this link, does not come with very important news. Brace is in charge of just that, preparing and launching "vintage" drivers and the S3 Graphics, seven years out, can be considered as such.
Brace's work has resulted in some fixes to address compiler warnings and use of a deprecated header file. Other X.Org contributors also addressed other compilation issues, README file updates, and other basics. This is largely just a maintenance release to allow the S3 X.Org driver to compile with newer xorg server versions.