That's just the dead blog and dead twitter. The mailing list is fairly active, hundreds of posts per month. The bug tracker is being bit by the death of google code and I don't recall reading where its going. It uses darcs and there's talk of a git mirror.

In a way its a pity this story popped up today. There's been talk on the mailing list just a week or two ago about a new release "real soon now". I assumed this story was the announcement of the new release, until I clicked thru and studied a bit.

Its not a GUI environment but a window manager along the philosophical lines of do one thing and do it very well. Once it works, which it does, its hard to find something to change unless the API changes for X (unlikely).

xmonad is largely 'finished'. It works. So we don't have to keep modifying it now.