Is this project still alive?

[Lobosque]

With the arrival of the WP-API into the Wordpress core, I am surprised that even though the api is now natively available, you still need plugins to authenticate.
I tried a few plugins to use the basic-auth, but there is clearly a problem with the Wordpress default .htaccess. I wonder if they are going to change it in core?
Since this plugin last commit was two years ago, I wonder if it is still maintained and if not, what is the best option to use basic http auth? Where should we concentrate our efforts to build a Basic Auth plugin that works?
Also, I'm really curious to know if the core has plans to provide native authentication. Does anyone knows?

[velara3]

What is the current status? Do you need this plugin to do basic auth?

[geraldo]

You still need A plugin for doing basic authentication. I use "Application Password" to use standard WP API put and post methods for creating CPT. I actually don't know the differences to this plugin, I came here because of the .htaccess issue...