The first release candidate for X11R6.9/7.0 is now available; would be nice if an ebuild for this version was available. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
We've had 7.0 (modular) in the tree since rc0, and will not be putting any newer versions of 6.9 (monolithic) in. http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/migrating_to_modular_x_howto.txt (not sure if spyderous has kept this up to date with new dependencies and such, but it's still a good starting point)
Yeah, it's pretty up to date. At least whenever someone mentions a problem, I change it.