PrBoom+ development had long moved from SourceForge to Github[1][2], so the ports include an old version of the source engine.
The development, however has been discontinued in June this year; a last maintainer version (v2.6.66) has been released; and the Github repository has been archived:[3] > Hey people, > > I'd like to announce that I just tagged the PrBoom+ 2.6.66 release! > > https://github.com/coelckers/prboom-plus/releases/tag/v2.6.66 > > This is just a maintenance release to make the changes that have > accumulated over the past 1.5 years available to all users who > cannot build the sources themselves. Please do not mistake this > as a sign of active development! > > Future development will continue to take place in DSDA-Doom [1]. > Or, for those who like to stay closer to the original code base, > check out JadingTsunami's PrBoomX [2]. > > [1] https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom > [2] https://github.com/JadingTsunami/prboomX Quoting from the DoomWiki[4]: > The last update of active development was version 2.6.2, released on > February 11, 2022. On June 20, 2023, maintenance version 2.6.66 was > released which collects all changes committed after development > discontinued. Three days later, the GitHub repository was archived. DSDA-Doom, a source engine based on PrBoom+ which has already been ported to OpenBSD, is PrBoom+'s spiritual successor. Debian, for example, changed prboom-plus into a transitional dummy package to dsda-doom.[5] Therefore, since prboom-plus has been discontinued, should we remove it from the ports? And recommend people to install dsda-doom instead? There is also PrBoomX[6], which is closer to the original code base, although it seems to not have the new features dsda-doom adds on top of PrBoom+. (I have never tried it, tho). [1]: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/106866-prboom-2666-jun-20-2023/ [2]: https://github.com/coelckers/prboom-plus [3]: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/post/2662145 [4]: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/PrBoom%2B [5]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/games/prboom-plus [6]: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/PrBoomX
