Pure newbie needs some help for POV-Ray plugin

[micheus]

Thanks for the contribution oort.
I checked with David and there is a site archived that can be used for searches (just a little slow): http://web.archive.org/web/http://www.yafaray.org/

Seems that Yafaray is more or less dead (yafaray.org is broken). PovRay hasn't changed its version number since 2013, so I guess that Kerkythea may be the most up-to-date...

Kerkythea: It was "abandoned" since its creators built the Thea render (payed). Latest version is from Jun 19, 2018;
POV-Ray: It has been maintained in a very slow schedule and the last version is from May 27, 2018 - although they were working on it code until last year (future v3.8 );
YafaRay: It development was "suspended" since 2017, but it's now back on development with the last release from Jul 13, 2020.

So, in this scenario, the Yafaray has a more promissory future.
oort has been sharing here a lot of information about it over the years.