As advertised by the author, Hotot 0.9.8 was released. Sources are in the same place at github. More details here: http://hotot.org/hotot-0.9.8-released-many-updates-involved Thanks.
+*hotot-0.9.8 (19 Apr 2012) + + 19 Apr 2012; Michael Weber <xmw@gentoo.org> -hotot-0.9.6_p20110726.ebuild, + -hotot-0.9.6_p20111015.ebuild, +hotot-0.9.8.ebuild: + Version bump to beta (thanks patkoscsaba, bug 412631), remove old versions. +