- NetHack 3.6.1 -- General information
+ NetHack 3.6.2 -- General information
NetHack 3.6 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack,
which is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of
NetHack 3.4 as there was no NetHack 3.5 release.
-NetHack 3.6.1 contains over 470 bug fixes to NetHack 3.6.0. The
-file doc/fixes36.1 in the source distribution has a full list of them.
-The text in there was written for the development team's own use and is
-provided "as is", so please do not ask us to further explain the entries
-in that file. Some entries might be considered "spoilers", particularly
-in the "new features" section.
+NetHack 3.6.2 contains a collection of about 320 bug fixes to NetHack 3.6.1
+and more than 20 enhancements. The file doc/fixes36.2 in the source
+distribution has a full list of them. The text in there was written for the
+development team's own use and is provided "as is", so please do not ask us
+to further explain the entries in that file. Some entries might be considered
+"spoilers", particularly in the "new features" section.
Below you will find some other general notes that were not considered
spoilers:
-* additional Terry Pratchett tribute passages
-* enhanced map position picking
-* new status line conditions Stone Strngl Deaf Lev Fly Ride
-* updated status hilites and several interface enhancements
-* new paranoid_confirm settings
-* a new extended command #kick
-* the vanquished monsters list can be sorted during end of game disclosure
-* fountains are bright blue
-* travel accepts 'm' (request menu) prefix
-* pressing a or A when cursor positioning shows menu of "interesting" features
-* pressing z or Z when cursor positioning can cycle through valid locations
-* add option herecmd_menu to make a mouse click on your character pop up a menu
-* #adjust's behavior altered when collecting compatible stacks
-* Some community patches that were included:
- - Malcolm Ryan's improved tin opener
- - Ray Chason's MSDOS port support for some VESA modes
- - Ray Chason's Qt4 windowport
- - Darshan Shaligram's pet ranged attack
- - Jason Dorje Short's key rebinding
- - Maxime Bacoux's new DUMPLOG
-* updated database entries for several things
+* Performance optimizations with tty including the ability to do per field
+ updating
+* sys/winnt/nttty performance improvements mainly through the introduction
+ of a back buffer approach
+* a couple of windows crash bug fixes
+* adoption of the curses window port that was in use in the community
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Intel Pentium or better (or clone) running Linux, BSDI, or
Windows (7 through 10)
Intel 80386 or greater (or clone) boxes running Linux, or BSDI
- Mac OS X 10.9
+ Mac OS X 10.11 (follow the instructions in sys/unix, not sys/mac)
OpenVMS (aka VMS) V8.4 on Alpha and on Integrity/Itanium/IA64
Instructions have been provided by way of community contribution on:
https://www.nethack.org/common/contact.html or
http://www.nethack.org/common/contact.html
Please include the version information from #version or the command line
-option --version in the apropriate field.
+option --version in the appropriate field.
A public repository of the latest NetHack code that we've made
available can be obtained via git here:
-- Good luck, and happy Hacking --
-# $NHDT-Date: 1524689604 2018/04/25 20:53:24 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.0 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.42 $
+# $NHDT-Date: 1557077369 2019/05/05 17:29:29 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.2 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.55 $
# Copyright (c) 2012 by Michael Allison
# NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
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