If you get the POV-Ray for Windows v3.1g you'll be as up-to-date as anyone
concerning the official program.
It's in continuous development as is the case with most programs which are
still alive and kicking.
So long as you aren't using the older 3.02 version you'll be fine for a
while longer.  The POV-Team has made some changes in the past which make
some features obsolete while adding still other new features as well.  It's
always been noted in the Doc and also in the message stream you see when
parsing a scene file if using a keyword that is experimental.
You don't sound interested in keeping track of many differences but the
SuperPatch, among others, can be a kind of preview of what's to come for the
official versions down the road (however no gaurantees).

SuperPatch and UVPov are the hot items these days, but there are many others
out there.
http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/
http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm

Bob

christof.schuler <chr### [at] t-onlinede> wrote in message
news:3817E92F.101A4F54@t-online.de...
> I'm working for a few weeks now with povray 3.1 and it seems to be
> really good. But I do not know exact: Is this version really the newest
> one ? If you look at povray.org most links are from the years 1995 or
> 1996 and it is for windows 3.1. There are even links to meshes from
> airplanes, cars .. but as I see not for povray but for 3dstudio. Is
> there still a development for povray or is povray perhaps used in
> another (actual, freeware) raytracer ? Or Perhaps with another GUI ? And
> I have to admitt: I have problems with the "command-line". All this
> makes me feel, that my version perhaps is not the actual one.
> Nevertheless: povray produces great pictures !!!
>
> christof
>
> ps: the reason I ask is: I invest some time beside my daily work into
> povray and I don't want to invest it into an old version :-)

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