Verison 1.8 is out for couple of months already and it has great performance enhancements, so it would be cool to get in unstable.
Yep, version in portage is from 2013-02, latest upstream is 2014-12. Bumping the version in my overlay works for meβ’.
+*fdm-1.8 (27 Feb 2015) + + 27 Feb 2015; Michael Weber <xmw@gentoo.org> +fdm-1.8.ebuild, + -fdm-1.6-r1.ebuild, fdm-1.7.ebuild: + Version bump (bug 539634, thanks ainieco@yandex.ru for the hint). +