update some history

README

@@ -4,20 +4,23 @@ 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 3.6.2 contains a collection of more than 15 bug fixes to NetHack 3.6.1.
-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.
+NetHack 3.6.2 is being released as a collection of a couple of dozen bug fixes 
+committed since the release of 3.6.1. The file doc/fixes36.2 in the source 
+distribution has a full list of the bug fixes. 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:
-* 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
+* Significant performance optimizations for tty including the ability to 
+  do per field updating
+* Significant performance improvements in sys/winnt/nttty mainly through
+  the introduction of a back buffer approach
+* a couple of windows crash bug fixes during early game startup
+* Ensuring that unix Makefiles do not rely on features unique to gnu make
+* Improvements to hilite_status parsing in an effort to ensure that all 
+  expected and sensible values ranges are more easily specified and accepted
 
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