Oh, huh. They didn't use Github when I was using the emulator. It was all subversion.
I get update alerts just about every day when I open the emu. Haven't noticed any difference with the games I'm playing on it which all work seemingly fine, although shadow of the colossus is sometimes finicky.
Sadly, one of the team memembers died in Jan 2022. Was he essential for continuing development, or is that just an unfortunate coincidence?
He only made 4 commits to the repo, so probably not.