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 NetHack 3.6.7 was released on February 16, 2023 containing a security fix and
 some bug fixes.
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 Development work for the major release to follow NetHack 3.6 begain in 2015
 around the same time as NetHack 3.6.0 was being released. That development
 work continued in parallel to each of the NetHack 3.6 releases from 2015
 through 2023, and continued until the end of April 2026.  For the first time,
 that development was shared publicly on GitHub and SourceForge as it occurred.
 It was done under the label NetHack-3.7 work-in-progress (WIP), although the
 version number for the next release had not yet been solidified.
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 Exposure of the development to the public brought many good things, and some
 challenges. People were able to observe and critize changes and new features
 almost immediately, and they often did. The GitHub pull request system made
 it straightforward for people to contribute directly to development.
 Contributions resolved many, many bugs in the game and we thank all the
 contributors.
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 In early 2026, with the game development getting stable enough to consider
 initiating an official release, the devteam reviewed the nature and number of
 changes in the game. It was clear that there was sufficient depth and 
 breadth to warrant a major release and version 5.0 was decided on.
 That's a new major release over 3.x, without opening up any ambiguity
 or confusion with existing variants that there might have been had it
 been released version 4.0.
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 NetHack 5.0.0 was released on ???? ??, 2026.
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 The source code for NetHack 5.0.0 was modified and modernized to be 
 compliant with standard C99.
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 NetHack 5.0 was the first version to replace the lex and yacc level
 and dungeon compilers of past versions, with a new Lua interpreter-based
 approach to provide those elements. Lua is also used for the quest texts
 in NetHack 5.0.0. The entire development team acknowledges the work
 done by \fBPasi Kallinen\fP to make that happen.
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 At the time of the NetHack 5.0 release, the core development team,
 active and alumni, included \fBWarwick Allison\fP, \fBMichael Allison\fP,
 \fBKen Arromdee\fP, \fBDavid Cohrs\fP, \fBJessie Collet\fP, \fBBart House\fP,
 \fBKevin Hugo\fP, \fBPasi Kallinen\fP, \fBKen Lorber\fP, \fBDean Luick\fP,
 \fBPat Rankin\fP, \fBDerek S. Ray\fP, \bBAlex Smith\fP, \fBPatric Mueller\fP,
 \fBMike Stephenson\fP, \fBJanet Walz\fP, \fBPaul Winner\fP. 
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 \fBKen Lorber\fP, \fBPat Rankin\fP, \fBPatrick Mueller\fP and
 \fBMichael Allison\fP helped ensure that NetHack 5.0 would run
 on macOS.
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 \fBIngo Paschke\fP somehow managed to revive a NetHack 5.0 port for the Amiga,
 using a cross-compiler on a modern platform to do so. His work was shared so
 other's can straightforwardly produce NetHack 5.0 for the Amiga thanks to his
 efforts.
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 \fBRay Chason\fP contributed the majority of maintenance work for the
 NetHack 5.0 MS-DOS port, including porting the curses interface to it.
 \fBMichael Allison\fP ensured that NetHack 5.0 core changes continued to
 work with the msdos port and keep it alive.  Cross-compiling the MS-DOS
 port has helped make that possible and mostly painless.
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 People that contributed to the Windows port of NetHack 5.0 since the
 development of NetHack 5.0 begain over eleven years ago, included
 \fBMichael Allison\fP, \fBDavid Cohrs\fP, \fBBart House\fP,
 \fBPasi Kallinen\fP, \fBAlex Kompel\fP, \fBDion Nicolaas\fP,
 \fBDerek S. Ray\fP and \fBYitzhak Sapir\fP.
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 With sadness, the devteam would like to acknowledge and remember the past
 contributions from the late \fBRon Van Iwaarden\fP, who was the sole maintainer
 of NetHack for OS/2 for several past NetHack releases. Ron will be missed.
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 The official NetHack web site is maintained by \fBKen Lorber\fP
 at
 .UR https://www.nethack.org/ .