Whatever happened to the German stellarator? Seem to recall Merkel being present for one of the first tests a few years back, ITER seems to get more coverage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X
It's not, however, something that designed to directly head toward fusion power itself but instead to better understand components that could be improved to make fusion power.
In addition now with fusion there are heap of companies trying to get fusion power going in about a decade or so. Probably the most interesting of which are:
https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/
and
Who are both using new developments in high temperature superconducting tape fabrication to increase the magnetic field to get to fusion faster than ITER.
In this new concept, there is now a solid wall on the inside that is not shielded from the plasma by a thick layer of liquid metal. That means power density limits due to limits on wall loading will apply to their reactor, just as they do to conventional DT magnetic fusion reactor schemes. So, the major theoretical engineering advantage of their idea has been lost.