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This fixes36.2 file is here to capture information about updates in the 3.6.x
-lineage following the release of 3.6.1 in April 2018. Please note, however,
-that another 3.6.x release is not anticipated after 3.6.2, and most developer
+lineage following the release of 3.6.1 in April 2018. Please note, however,
+that another 3.6.x release is not anticipated after 3.6.2, and most developer
focus will shift to the next major release.
General Fixes and Modified Features
static prototype could be left orphaned depending on #defines in rip.c
config file error handling routines were calling xx_wait_synch early
even before the window system was initialized; add a default routine
-status_finish() in botl.c would unconditionally invoke the window port's
+status_finish() in botl.c would unconditionally invoke the window port's
win_status_finish() routine which was problematic if the windowport
wasn't initialized yet
using 'O' to set up a hilite_status rule for string comparison, the menu for
when finishing using 'O' to examine or set hilite_status rules, if the
'statushilites' option is 0 and there is at least one rule, give a
reminder about setting it to non-zero to activate highlighting
+if player creates any menu colors via 'O' while menucolors is off, issue a
+ reminder that it needs to be on in order for those to become effective
end of game disclosure was exercising Wisdom when revealing inventory and
also repeatedly updating persistent inventory window if enabled
internals for 'sortloot' option have been changed to not reorder the actual
were restored) and named fruit
remembered corpse which isn't there anymore would be described by farlook as
the corpse of a random monster type
-when eating a tin of spinach, don't "feel like Popeye" is sustain-abilities
+when eating a tin of spinach, don't "feel like Popeye" if sustain-abilities
prevents any strength gain
summary text [for message history] of quest message Pri 00081 (Priest quest
success message given when bringing quest artifact to leader)
the build configuration makes plain 'char' unsigned
wizard mode #wizidentify didn't disclose extra information for unID'd items if
key bindings took away ^I and didn't bind #wizidentify to another key
-make transformation message of a deliberate apply of a figurine seem a bit
+make transformation message of a deliberate apply of a figurine seem a bit
less definite when blind and place unseen monster marker at the spot
you think it should be
-add window port status_update() value BL_RESET to use as a flag to
- redraw all status fields, distinguished from BL_FLUSH which now only
+add window port status_update() value BL_RESET to use as a flag to redraw
+ all status fields, distinguished from BL_FLUSH which now only
specifies that the bot() call has completed so any buffered changes
should now be rendered
for hilite_status of string status fields (title, dungeon-level, alignment),
like werecreature in beast form and non-Unchanging hero
cancelled shapeshifter is no longer able to change shape
cancelled shapeshifter hit by polymorph magic will become uncancelled
-polymorph zap which creates a new long worm (or retains an old one via wizard
- mode monpolycontrol) can hit that worm multiple times (tail segments)
+polymorph zap which created a new long worm (or retains an old one via wizard
+ mode monpolycontrol) could hit that worm multiple times (tail segments)
wishing for "orange" could yield orange or orange colored gem/potion/spellbook
-a sleeping or paralyzed mon would be frightened by its reflection when
+a sleeping or paralyzed mon would be frightened by its reflection when
applying a mirror
prevent leash showing unseen monster as "attached to it"
gremlins seemed impervious to Sunsword's light yet a flash from a camera
caused them to cry out in pain
-when objects migrate (fall down stairs) and invisible hero (w/o see invisible,
- no-autopickup) descends, stairs get shown instead of object(s) on them
+when objects migrated (fell down stairs) and invisible hero (w/o see invisible,
+ no-autopickup) descended, stairs got shown instead of object(s) on them
drum of earthquake was causing deafness but oddly enough only when used up
known bear trap was being forgotten about by a player polymorphed into a
flying monster if the player unsuccessfully tried to #untrap it and
#wizintrinsic for 'warn_of_mon' didn't set any type of monster (now grid bugs)
clairvoyance would show trap instead of a monster on/in that trap, which was
intentional, but when clairvoyance finished the monster wasn't shown
+clairvoyance revealing underwater or under-lava objects left object displayed
+ instead of restoring the water or lava
nurse corpse/tin chance to convey poison resistance when eaten was not honored
make tame vampires be more aggressive when shifted to bat/fog/wolf form
a stale gold symbol could be displayed on the status line following a switch
applying--rather than wielding--a cursed polearm or weapon-tool didn't report
that it had become welded to hero's hand(s)
the message when riding a steed into a pit was composed but not shown
-dismount that kills steed because there is no room to put it on map blamed the
- hero; change that to only blame hero if dismount was voluntary
+dismount that killed steed because there was no room to put it on map blamed
+ hero; change that to only blame hero if dismount is voluntary
to emphasize that it's not a light source, change description of wielded Sting
from "(glowing light blue)" to "(light blue aura)" when sighted and
from "(glowing)" to nothing (not warm enough to feel) when blind
+ [subsequently changed in different manner; see 'exposed via git' below]
glowing Sting quivers if hero becomes blind and quivering Sting glows if
blindness ends; it worked for timed blindness but not for blindfold
weapon (wielded pie, egg, potion, boomerang) might be destroyed when hitting a
hero hit by something that causes inventory items to be destroyed with loss of
any of those causing other inventory items to be dropped or destroyed,
inventory traversal became unreliable (known sequence: potions hit by
- fire then breahing vapor from boiled unholy water triggering were
+ fire then breathing vapor from boiled unholy water triggering 'were'
transformation to beast form; possible sequence: ring of levitation
blasted by lightning and dropping hero onto fire trap); [3.6.1 fixed a
similar problem with more obvious symptom, an "object lost" panic when
a couple places that warrant it when a specific monster type isn't
specified on the call to makemon()
at start of session (new game or restore), HILITE_STATUS for gold was ignored
-if player creates any menu colors via 'O' while menucolors is off, issue a
- reminder that it needs to be on in order for those to become effective
setting second or later named fruit to value beginning with two or more spaces
followed by non-space gave "singular of null?" warning
when blocking/unblocking of levitation or flying was updated due to walking
onto different terrain, the relevant status condition wasn't updated
on the screen until some other status update happened
-if levitating hero poly'd into pass-wall creature jumped or teleported from
+if levitating hero in pass-wall creature form jumped or teleported from
terrain that allowed levitation to terrain that didn't or vice versa,
blocking of levitation wasn't updated properly
-clairvoyance revealing underwater or under-lava objects left object displayed
- instead of restoring the water or lava
make it easier to clear 'pickup_types' (menustyles Traditional and Combination
could do so by setting it to 'a'; now ' ' works too; Full and Partial
allowed unselecting every object class; now 'all classes' is a choice)
that item 'unpaid' and it would remain so on shop floor after the
the engulfer was killed; treat dropping shop items inside an engulfer
as stealing them and giving them to that engulfer--hero must pay for
- for them and shop retains ownership of them
+ them and shop retains ownership of them
while levitating inside a shop, throwing an unpaid item and having recoil move
hero out of shop (or to shopkeeper's spot in front of door) would
leave the item unpaid on shop floor and also on the shop's bill but
setting the inverse attribute for gold had the space before "$:"
getting highlighted along with the gold field
sortloot segfaulted when filtering a subset of items (seen with 'A' command)
-orctown: prevent Bad fruit #0 and some minor tuning
+orctown: prevent "Bad fruit #0" and some minor tuning
orctown: orcs beyond the mines were being given any left-over booty and named
as part of the same marauding gang operating within the mines
make long extended commands list be more navigable
include/winprocs.h following a recent merge
fix foxen pluralization again after underflow remedy reintroduced the problem
fix "placing monster over another?" warning for vault guards
-status highlighting classified gold, time, and experience-points as data type
+status highlighting classifies gold, time, and experience-points as data type
'long' but when selecting hilite rule to use treated them as 'int'
-tty: turn off an optimization that is the suspected cause of Windows reported
+tty: turn off an optimization that is the suspected cause of Windows reported
partial status lines following level changes
tty: ensure that current status fields are always copied to prior status
values so that comparisons are correct
Platform- and/or Interface-Specific Fixes or Features
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move 'perm_invent' value from flags to iflags to keep it out of save files;
- affects X11, win32, and curses
+ affects X11, win32, and curses (save file compatibility is preserved)
always define shell and suspend commands so that key bindings copied from one
platform to another work even if second one disables those commands
-windows-gui: In nethackw, there could be conflicts between menu accelerators
+windows-gui: In nethackw, there could be conflicts between menu accelerators
and an extra choice accelerator to fix H7132.
windows-gui: recognize new BL_RESET in status_update; no change in behavior yet
windows-gui: align hpbar behavior at zero hit points with tty behavior
-windows-gui: add support for status_hilites for the player condition field
+windows-gui: add support for status_hilites for the player condition field
such as stone, slime, strngl, blind, deaf, stun, conf, etc.
windows-tty: Specify both width and height when creating font for width testing
windows-tty: To counter lag problems that were occuring with the Win32 console
port, implement a console back buffer to reduce the number of calls
- made to WriteConsoleOutputXXX
+ made to WriteConsoleOutputXXX
windows-tty: Additional changes to xputc_core() and early_raw_print() to
- manage the cursor position correctly as that is needed to handle
- raw printing correctly
-windows-tty: Added check for when we might be running off the bottom of the
+ manage the cursor position correctly as that is needed to handle
+ raw printing correctly
+windows-tty: Added check for when we might be running off the bottom of the
screen when handling msmsg()
windows-tty: Added runtime checks to keep cursor always within bounds
windows-tty: Fix memory leaks as reported in H5779
-windows-tty: Use nhraykey by default if the players keyboard layout is
+windows-tty: Use nhraykey by default if the player's keyboard layout is
non-english as reported in H4216
windows-tty: We now support changing altkeyhandler in game
windows-tty: augment codepage850-to-Unicode mappings that are not displayable
- with codepage437-to-Unicode mappings that are, to help ensure
- that rogue-level characters in the status line match their appearance
- on the map
+ with codepage437-to-Unicode mappings that are, to help ensure that
+ rogue-level characters o status line match their appearance on map
windows-tty: add support for mouse_support:0 (disabled), mouse_support:1
(fully-functional including disabling QuickEdit on Windows console
because QuickEdit intercepts the mouse clicks so NetHack never sees
them), or mouse_support:2 (NetHack support on but QuickEdit left as is)
windows: Added ntassert() mechanism for Windows based port use
-windows: heed OPTIONS=symset:default in config file if it is present
+windows: heed OPTIONS=symset:default in config file if it is present
windows: add curses window port which can co-exist with tty in exe and be
selectable in user config file via OPTIONS=windowtype:curses
tty: significant optimizations for performance and per field rendering
within each class or sub-class of objects
YAFM when stumbling on an undetected monster while hallucinating
make it clear when a leprechaun dodges your attack
-wizard mode #wizidentify can now select individual items for permanent
+wizard mode #wizidentify can now select individual items for permanent
identification and don't display the selection to permanently
identify everything if everything is already fully identified
make mine town "orctown" variation a multiple level feature of the mines
NetHack Community Patches (or Variation) Included
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curses: the community patch for an optional curses window-port was
- incorporated into the NetHack source code tree. The curses
+ incorporated into the NetHack source code tree. The curses
window-port evolved from work originally done by Karl Garrison,
- and has been in use in several NetHack variants and on
+ and has been in use in several NetHack variants and on
nethack.alt.org and on www.hardfought.org/nethack/ for a while.
- It is available and tested for 3.6.2 for Windows with PDCurses
+ It is available and tested for 3.6.2 for Windows with PDCurses
layered underneath, and for Mac OSX and Unix (using ncurses as
- the layer underneath). It may also work for DOS with PDCurses
+ the layer underneath). It may also work for DOS with PDCurses
layered underneath, but that has not been tested.
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