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NetHack 3.6.7 was released on February 16, 2023 containing a security fix and
some bug fixes.
Development work for the major release to follow NetHack 3.6 began 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.
Exposure of the development to the public brought many good things, and some
challenges. People were able to observe and criticize 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.
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 as version 4.0.
NetHack 5.0.0 was released on May 2, 2026.
The source code for NetHack 5.0.0 was modified and modernized to be
compliant with standard C99. The 5.0.0 release contained over 3100 fixes,
changes, and updated features.
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 Pasi Kallinen to make that happen.
At the time of the NetHack 5.0 release, the core development team,
active and erstwhile, included Warwick Allison, Michael Allison,
Ken Arromdee, David Cohrs, Jessie Collet, Bart House, Kevin Hugo,
Pasi Kallinen, Ken Lorber, Dean Luick, Pat Rankin, Derek S. Ray,
Alex Smith, Patric Mueller, Mike Stephenson, Janet Walz, Paul Winner.
Ken Lorber, Pat Rankin, Patrick Mueller and Michael Allison helped ensure
that NetHack 5.0 would run on macOS.
Ingo Paschke 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 others can straightforwardly produce NetHack 5.0 for the Amiga thanks
to his efforts.
Ray Chason contributed the majority of maintenance work for the NetHack 5.0
MS-DOS port, including porting the curses interface to it.
Michael Allison 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.
People that contributed to the Windows port of NetHack 5.0 since the
development of NetHack 5.0 begain over eleven years ago, included
Michael Allison, David Cohrs, Bart House, Pasi Kallinen, Alex Kompel,
Dion Nicolaas, Derek S. Ray and Yitzhak Sapir.
With sadness, the devteam would like to acknowledge and remember the past
contributions from the late Ron Van Iwaarden, who was the sole maintainer
of NetHack for OS/2 for several past NetHack releases. Ron will be missed.
The official NetHack web site is maintained by Ken Lorber at
https://www.nethack.org/.
doc/Guidebook.mn
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.ds f0 \*(vr
.ds f1 \" empty
.\"DO NOT REMOVE NH_DATESUB .ds f2 Date(%B %-d, %Y)
.ds f2 May 1, 2026
.ds f2 May 2, 2026
.
.\" A note on some special characters:
.\" \(lq = left double quote
@@ -6817,7 +6817,7 @@ 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 as version 4.0.
.pg
NetHack 5.0.0 was released on , 2026.
NetHack 5.0.0 was released on May 2, 2026.
.pg
The source code for NetHack 5.0.0 was modified and modernized to be
compliant with standard C99. The 5.0.0 release contained over 3100 fixes,
doc/Guidebook.tex
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\author{Original version - Eric S. Raymond\\
(Edited and expanded for 5.0.0 by Mike Stephenson and others)}
%DO NOT REMOVE NH_DATESUB \date{Date(%B %-d, %Y)}
\date{May 1, 2026}
\date{May 2, 2026}
\maketitle
@@ -5792,7 +5792,7 @@ computer unless you manually click submit on a form.
%.ei
\end{description}
These options are used only to save you some typing on the crash
report and \#bugreport forms.
report and \#bugreport forms.
%.si
\begin{description}
%.lp
@@ -6769,7 +6769,7 @@ U+224B and the color represented by R-G-B value 0-0-160:\\
OPTIONS=glyph:G_pool/U+224B/0-0-160
\end{verbatim}
The list of acceptable glyphid's can be produced by
The list of acceptable glyphid's can be produced by
\begin{verbatim}
nethack --glyphids
\end{verbatim}
@@ -6911,7 +6911,7 @@ The syntax is the same as WIZARDS.
%.lp
\item[MSGHANDLER]
A path and filename of executable. Whenever a message-window
message is shown, NetHack runs this program. The program will get
message is shown, \textit{NetHack} runs this program. The program will get
the message as the only parameter.
%.lp
\item[MAXPLAYERS]
@@ -6965,12 +6965,12 @@ random statue names (default is 10).
%.lp
\item[ACCESSIBILITY]
0 or 1 to disable or enable, respectively, the ability for players
to set S\textunderscore pet\textunderscore override and S\textunderscore hero\textunderscore override
to set S\textunderscore pet\textunderscore override and S\textunderscore hero\textunderscore override
symbols in their configuration file.
%.lp
\item[PORTABLE\textunderscore DEVICE\textunderscore PATHS]
0 or 1 Windows OS only, the game will look for all of its external
files, and write to all of its output files in one place
files, and write to all of its output files in one place
rather than at the standard locations.
%.lp
\item[DUMPLOGFILE]
@@ -7170,8 +7170,8 @@ subsequent revisions of 3.0.
\medskip
\noindent \textit{Olaf Seibert} ported \textit{NetHack} 2.3 and 3.0 to the Amiga. {\it
Norm Meluch}, \textit{Stephen Spackman} and \textit{Pierre Martineau} designed
overlay code for \textit{PC NetHack} 3.0. \textit{Johnny Lee} ported {\it
NetHack} 3.0 to the Macintosh. Along with various other Dungeoneers, they
overlay code for \textit{PC NetHack} 3.0. \textit{Johnny Lee} ported
\textit{NetHack} 3.0 to the Macintosh. Along with various other Dungeoneers, they
continued to enhance the PC, Macintosh, and Amiga ports through the later
revisions of 3.0.
@@ -7437,7 +7437,7 @@ official release version.
%.pg
\medskip
In January 2015, preparation began for the release of NetHack 3.6.
In January 2015, preparation began for the release of \textit{NetHack} 3.6.
%.pg
\medskip
@@ -7449,7 +7449,7 @@ At the beginning of development for what would eventually get released as
\textit{Mike Stephenson}, \textit{Janet Walz}, and \textit{Paul Winner}.
In early 2015, ahead of the release of 3.6.0, new members
\textit{Sean Hunt}, \textit{Pasi Kallinen}, and \textit{Derek S. Ray}
joined the \textit{NetHack} development team.
joined the \textit{NetHack Development Team}.
%.pg
\medskip
@@ -7484,7 +7484,7 @@ maintained the port of \textit{NetHack} 3.6 for Microsoft Windows.
%.pg
\medskip
\textit{Pat Rankin} attempted to keep the VMS port running for NetHack 3.6,
\textit{Pat Rankin} attempted to keep the VMS port running for \textit{NetHack} 3.6,
hindered by limited access. \textit{Kevin Smolkowski} has updated and tested it
for the most recent version of OpenVMS (V8.4 as of this writing) on Alpha
and Integrity (aka Itanium aka IA64) but not VAX.
@@ -7497,7 +7497,7 @@ necessary updates to the community at large.
%.pg
\medskip
In late April 2018, several hundred bug fixes for 3.6.0 and some new features
were assembled and released as NetHack 3.6.1.
were assembled and released as \textit{NetHack} 3.6.1.
The \textit{NetHack Development Team} at the
time of release of 3.6.1 consisted of
\textit{Warwick Allison}, \textit{Michael Allison}, \textit{Ken Arromdee},
@@ -7519,29 +7519,122 @@ for decades, joined the \textit{NetHack Development Team} in late May 2019.
%.pg
\medskip
NetHack 3.6.3 was released on December 5, 2019 containing over 190 bug
fixes to NetHack 3.6.2.
\textit{NetHack} 3.6.3 was released on December 5, 2019 containing over 190 bug
fixes to \textit{NetHack} 3.6.2.
%.pg
\medskip
NetHack 3.6.4 was released on December 18, 2019 containing a security fix and
\textit{NetHack} 3.6.4 was released on December 18, 2019 containing a security fix and
a few bug fixes.
%.pg
\medskip
NetHack 3.6.5 was released on January 27, 2020 containing some security fixes
\textit{NetHack} 3.6.5 was released on January 27, 2020 containing some security fixes
and a small number of bug fixes.
%.pg
\medskip
NetHack 3.6.6 was released on March 8, 2020 containing a security fix and
\textit{NetHack} 3.6.6 was released on March 8, 2020 containing a security fix and
some bug fixes.
%.pg
\medskip
NetHack 3.6.7 was released on February 16, 2023 containing a security fix and
\textit{NetHack} 3.6.7 was released on February 16, 2023 containing a security fix and
some bug fixes.
%.pg
\medskip
Development work for the major release to follow \textit{NetHack} 3.6 began in 2015
around the same time as \textit{NetHack} 3.6.0 was being released. That development
work continued in parallel to each of the \textit{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.
%.pg
\medskip
Exposure of the development to the public brought many good things, and some
challenges. People were able to observe and criticize 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.
%.pg
\medskip
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 as version 4.0.
%.pg
\medskip
\textit{NetHack} 5.0.0 was released on May 2, 2026.
%.pg
\medskip
The source code for \textit{NetHack} 5.0.0 was modified and modernized to be
compliant with standard C99. The 5.0.0 release contained over 3100 fixes,
changes, and updated features.
%.pg
\medskip
\textit{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 \textit{NetHack} 5.0.0. The entire development team acknowledges the work
done by \textit{Pasi Kallinen} to make that happen.
\textit{Ray Chason}
%.pg
\medskip
At the time of the \textit{NetHack} 5.0 release, the core
\textit{NetHack Development Team},
active and erstwhile, included \textit{Warwick Allison}, \textit{Michael Allison},
\textit{Ken Arromdee}, \textit{David Cohrs}, \textit{Jessie Collet}, \textit{Bart House},
\textit{Kevin Hugo}, \textit{Pasi Kallinen}, \textit{Ken Lorber}, \textit{Dean Luick},
\textit{Pat Rankin}, \textit{Derek S. Ray}, \textit{Alex Smith}, \textit{Patric Mueller},
\textit{Mike Stephenson}, \textit{Janet Walz}, \textit{Paul Winner}.
%.pg
\medskip
\textit{Ken Lorber}, \textit{Pat Rankin}, \textit{Patrick Mueller} and
\textit{Michael Allison} helped ensure that \textit{NetHack} 5.0 would run
on macOS.
%.pg
\medskip
\textit{Ingo Paschke} somehow managed to revive a \textit{NetHack} 5.0 port for the Amiga,
using a cross-compiler on a modern platform to do so. His work was shared so
others can straightforwardly produce \textit{NetHack} 5.0 for the Amiga thanks to his
efforts.
%.pg
\medskip
\textit{Ray Chason} contributed the majority of maintenance work for the
\textit{NetHack} 5.0 MS-DOS port, including porting the curses interface to it.
\textit{Michael Allison} ensured that \textit{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.
%.pg
\medskip
People that contributed to the Windows port of \textit{NetHack} 5.0 since the
development of \textit{NetHack} 5.0 begain over eleven years ago, included
\textit{Michael Allison}, \textit{David Cohrs}, \textit{Bart House},
\textit{Pasi Kallinen}, \textit{Alex Kompel}, \textit{Dion Nicolaas},
\textit{Derek S. Ray} and \textit{Yitzhak Sapir}.
%.pg
\medskip
With sadness, the devteam would like to acknowledge and remember the past
contributions from the late \textit{Ron Van Iwaarden}, who was the sole maintainer
of \textit{NetHack} for OS/2 for several past \textit{NetHack} releases. Ron will be missed.
%.pg
\medskip
\noindent The official \textit{NetHack} web site is maintained by \textit{Ken Lorber} at
@@ -7553,7 +7646,7 @@ some bug fixes.
\subsection*{Special Thanks}
\noindent On behalf of the \textit{NetHack} community, thank you very much once
again to \textit{M. Drew Streib} and \textit{Pasi Kallinen} for providing a
public NetHack server at nethack.alt.org. Thanks to \textit{Keith Simpson}
public \textit{NetHack} server at nethack.alt.org. Thanks to \textit{Keith Simpson}
and \textit{Andy Thomson} for hardfought.org. Thanks to all those
unnamed dungeoneers who invest their time and effort into annual
\textit{NetHack} tournaments such as \textit{Junethack},
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* to individual level files matter; changes to general game state don't)
* but the extra complexity to support that is not worth the effort.]
*/
/*#define VERSION_COMPATIBILITY 0x03070000L*/
/*#define VERSION_COMPATIBILITY 0x05000000L*/
/****************************************************************************/
/* Version 5.0.x */
/*
* NetHack 5.0.0, <insert date here>
* NetHack 5.0.0, May 2, 2026
*
* Sources changed to C99.
* level compiler, dungeon compiler, and quest text all replaced with
* Lua alternatives.
* Refer to doc/fixes5-0-0.txt for a complete list of fixes and changes.
*
*/