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"complete rewrite of the OptiPNG project, which was assumed to be dead as no commit had been made to it since March 2014"

Version 0.7.6 of OptiPNG was released 2016-apr-03.

Not super recent, but it seems reasonable, given the limited scope, that it would stabilize and not change much after a certain point

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First commit of OxiPNG was 2015-12-15. The way I read the part you quoted is that they originally assumed OptiPNG to be dead, not that they are saying now that it's dead.

Absolutely agree with your point about reaching a stage where not so many big changes are necessary though.

Ahh, I did miss that, but the OxiPng readme doesn't mention that OptiPNG has had a release since their initial observation either.

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