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I don't see anything new, last commit was 2012. maybe add "(2012) to the title?

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It's the Zenimax buyout and John Carmack stepping down & out. It's the end of the iD era.

Commit dates don’t necessarily correspond 1:1 to the dates they became public though, so it might be hard to tell.

From the OpenArena page on wikipedia: "The OpenArena project was established on August 19, 2005, one day after the id Tech 3 source code released under GNU GPL license."

The id Tech 3 wikipedia page "id Tech 3, popularly known as the Quake III Arena engine"

Someone tried for a pull request in Oct 2017 with 3,275 commits, still pending.

I can't find any evidence that anything new has happened.

The "canonical" open source version of Quake 3 (Arena?) is ioquake - https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3 / https://ioquake3.org. Last commit 18 hours ago.

OpenArena is based on ioquake3. OA is basically just free game data so you don't have to own Quake III: Arena itself to play a complete game.

Neat, did not know about this!

Because you should not use this unmaintained original source, but the various mods around. There are many, but different for each game. Eg https://ioquake3.org for latest quake 3 arena.

When I did my first mods 1995 there was no source code under GPL just reverse engineered format descriptions, but I was able write writers in Lisp to write maps in acad. This was fun.

Funny that somebody tried to submit a pull request for merging IoQuake 3 with the original sources:

https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena/pull/3

Haha :-)

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