In January 2015, preparation began for the release of NetHack 3.6.
At the beginning of development for what would eventually get released
-as 3.6.0, the development team consisted of Michael Allison,
-Warwick Allison, Ken Arromdee, David Cohrs, Jessie Collet, Ken Lorber,
+as 3.6.0, the development team consisted of Warwick Allison,
+Michael Allison, Ken Arromdee, David Cohrs, Jessie Collet, Ken Lorber,
Dean Luick, Pat Rankin, Mike Stephenson, Janet Walz, and Paul Winner.
Leading up to the release of 3.6.0 in early 2015, new members Sean Hunt,
Pasi Kallinen, and Derek S. Ray joined the NetHack development team.
-In January 2015, preparation began for the release of NetHack 3.6. The 3.6
-version merges work done by the development team since the previous release
-with some of the beloved community patches. Many bugs were fixed and some
-code was restructured.
+The 3.6 versions of the game are special in a particular way. Near the end of
+the development of 3.6.0, one of the significant inspirations for many of
+the humorous and fun features found in the game, author Terry Pratchett,
+passed away. The 3.6 versions of the game include a tribute to him.
+
+3.6.0 was released in December 2015, and merged work done by the development
+team since the release of 3.4.3 with some of the beloved community
+patches. Many bugs were fixed and some code was restructured.
+
+In 2018, several hundred bug fixes for 3.6.0 and some new features
+were assembled and released as NetHack 3.6.1. The development team at
+the time of release of 3.6.1 consisted of Warwick Allison,
+Michael Allison, Ken Arromdee, David Cohrs, Jessie Collet, Pasi Kallinen,
+Ken Lorber, Dean Luick, Patric Mueller, Pat Rankin, Derek S. Ray,
+Alex Smith, Mike Stephenson, Janet Walz and Paul Winner.
The development team, as well as Steve VanDevender and Kevin Smolkowski
-ensured that NetHack 3.6 continued to operate on various Unix flavors
+ensured that NetHack 3.6.1 continued to operate on various Unix flavors
as well as maintaining the X11 interface.
Ken Lorber, Haoyang Wang, Pat Rankin, and Dean Luick maintained the port
-of NetHack 3.6 for Mac.
+of NetHack 3.6.1 for Mac OSX.
-Michael Allison, Derek S. Ray, Yitzhak Sapir, Alex Kompel, Dion Nicolaas,
-and David Cohrs maintained the port of NetHack 3.6 for Microsoft Windows.
+Michael Allison, David Cohrs, Barton House, Pasi Kallinen, Alex Kompel,
+Dion Nicolaas, Derek S. Ray and Yitzhak Sapir maintained the port of
+NetHack 3.6.1 for Microsoft Windows.
-Pat Rankin attempted to keep the VMS port running for NetHack 3.6,
+Pat Rankin attempted to keep the VMS port running for NetHack 3.6.1,
hindered by limited access. 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.
-The 3.6 version of the game is special in a particular way. Near the end of
-the development of 3.6.0, one of the significant inspirations for many of
-the humorous and fun features found in the game, author Terry Pratchett,
-passed away. The 3.6 version of the game includes a tribute to him.
-
-The 3.6 development team consisting of Michael Allison, Warwick Allison,
-Ken Arromdee, David Cohrs, Jessie Collet, Sean Hunt, Pasi Kallinen,
-Ken Lorber, Dean Luick, Pat Rankin, Derek Ray, Mike Stephenson,
-Janet Walz, and Paul Winner released 3.6.1 as a bug fix release in
-January 2016.
+Ray Chason resurrected the msdos port for 3.6.1 and contributed the
+necessary updates to the community at large.
-An official NetHack web site continues to be maintained by Ken Lorber at
+The official NetHack web site is maintained by Ken Lorber at
http://www.nethack.org/.
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-SHOUT-OUTS
-
-The devteam would like to give a special "shout-out" to thank the generous
-people primarily responsible for the public NetHack servers available for
-playing the game at nethack.alt.org and devnull.net. In addition to
-providing a way for the public to play a game of NetHack from almost
-anywhere, they have hosted annual NetHack tournaments for many, many years.
-
-On behalf of the NetHack community, thank you very much to
-M. Drew Streib, Pasi Kallinen and Robin Bandy.
+On behalf of the NetHack community, thank you very much once again to
+M. Drew Streib, Pasi Kallinen and Robin Bandy for providing public
+NetHack servers at nethack.alt.org and devnull.net and/or for hosting annual
+NetHack tournaments.
- - - - - - - - - -
-From time to time, some depraved individual out there in netland sends a
-particularly intriguing modification to help out with the game. The Gods of
-the Dungeon sometimes make note of the names of the worst of these miscreants
+>From time to time, some depraved individual out there in netland sends a
+particularly intriguing modification to help out with the game. The gods of
+the dungeon sometimes make note of the names of the worst of these miscreants
in this, the list of Dungeoneers:
- Adam Aronow Janet Walz Nathan Eady
- Alex Kompel Janne Salmijarvi Norm Meluch
+ Adam Aronow J. Ali Harlow Mikko Juola
+ Alex Kompel Janet Walz Nathan Eady
+ Alex Smith Janne Salmijarvi Norm Meluch
Andreas Dorn Jean-Christophe Collet Olaf Seibert
Andy Church Jeff Bailey Pasi Kallinen
Andy Swanson Jochen Erwied Pat Rankin
- Ari Huttunen John Kallen Paul Winner
- Barton House John Rupley Pierre Martineau
- Benson I. Margulies John S. Bien Ralf Brown
- Bill Dyer Johnny Lee Ray Chason
- Boudewijn Waijers Jon W{tte Richard Addison
- Bruce Cox Jonathan Handler Richard Beigel
- Bruce Holloway Joshua Delahunty Richard P. Hughey
- Bruce Mewborne Keizo Yamamoto Rob Menke
- Carl Schelin Ken Arnold Robin Bandy
- Chris Russo Ken Arromdee Robin Johnson
- David Cohrs Ken Lorber Roderick Schertler
- David Damerell Ken Washikita Roland McGrath
- David Gentzel Kevin Darcy Ron Van Iwaarden
- David Hairston Kevin Hugo Ronnen Miller
- Dean Luick Kevin Sitze Ross Brown
- Del Lamb Kevin Smolkowski Sascha Wostmann
- Derek S. Ray Kevin Sweet Scott Bigham
- Deron Meranda Lars Huttar Scott R. Turner
- Dion Nicolaas Leon Arnott Sean Hunt
- Dylan O'Donnell M. Drew Streib Stephen Spackman
- Eric Backus Malcolm Ryan Stefan Thielscher
- Eric Hendrickson Mark Gooderum Stephen White
- Eric R. Smith Mark Modrall Steve Creps
- Eric S. Raymond Marvin Bressler Steve Linhart
- Erik Andersen Matthew Day Steve VanDevender
- Frederick Roeber Merlyn LeRoy Teemu Suikki
- Gil Neiger Michael Allison Tim Lennan
- Greg Laskin Michael Feir Timo Hakulinen
- Greg Olson Michael Hamel Tom Almy
- Gregg Wonderly Michael Sokolov Tom West
- Hao-yang Wang Mike Engber Warren Cheung
- Helge Hafting Mike Gallop Warwick Allison
- Irina Rempt-Drijfhout Mike Passaretti Yitzhak Sapir
- Izchak Miller Mike Stephenson
- J. Ali Harlow Mikko Juola
+ Ari Huttunen John Kallen Patric Mueller
+ Barton House John Rupley Paul Winner
+ Benson I. Margulies John S. Bien Pierre Martineau
+ Bill Dyer Johnny Lee Ralf Brown
+ Boudewijn Waijers Jon W{tte Ray Chason
+ Bruce Cox Jonathan Handler Richard Addison
+ Bruce Holloway Joshua Delahunty Richard Beigel
+ Bruce Mewborne Keizo Yamamoto Richard P. Hughey
+ Carl Schelin Ken Arnold Rob Menke
+ Chris Russo Ken Arromdee Robin Bandy
+ David Cohrs Ken Lorber Robin Johnson
+ David Damerell Ken Washikita Roderick Schertler
+ David Gentzel Kevin Darcy Roland McGrath
+ David Hairston Kevin Hugo Ron Van Iwaarden
+ Dean Luick Kevin Sitze Ronnen Miller
+ Del Lamb Kevin Smolkowski Ross Brown
+ Derek S. Ray Kevin Sweet Sascha Wostmann
+ Deron Meranda Lars Huttar Scott Bigham
+ Dion Nicolaas Leon Arnott Scott R. Turner
+ Dylan O'Donnell M. Drew Streib Sean Hunt
+ Eric Backus Malcolm Ryan Stephen Spackman
+ Eric Hendrickson Mark Gooderum Stefan Thielscher
+ Eric R. Smith Mark Modrall Stephen White
+ Eric S. Raymond Marvin Bressler Steve Creps
+ Erik Andersen Matthew Day Steve Linhart
+ Frederick Roeber Merlyn LeRoy Steve VanDevender
+ Gil Neiger Michael Allison Teemu Suikki
+ Greg Laskin Michael Feir Tim Lennan
+ Greg Olson Michael Hamel Timo Hakulinen
+ Gregg Wonderly Michael Sokolov Tom Almy
+ Hao-yang Wang Mike Engber Tom West
+ Helge Hafting Mike Gallop Warren Cheung
+ Irina Rempt-Drijfhout Mike Passaretti Warwick Allison
+ Izchak Miller Mike Stephenson Yitzhak Sapir
+
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