[SRC] Announcing the 3.4.2 Release of NetHack
Mike Stephenson
the second bugfix release for NetHack 3.4.
This release contains more than one hundred general bug fixes (see below),
as well as the following more specific items:
* Fixed a fatal bug that triggered a panic when your secondary weapon
was cursed during bones file creation
* Fixed a fatal bug that caused a crash when applying figurine, candle,
or bell that gets used up
* Fixed message ordering for several actions
* Fixed some Gnome compilation problems on Redhat 7.2 and 8.0
* Fixed a problem in the util Makefile
* use random() by default under linux instead of lrand48()
* win32 tty adjustments and support for loading alternative key handlers
A more complete list of changes for this release can be found in the file
doc/fixes34.2 in the source distribution. The text in this file was
written for the development team's use and is provided "as is", so please
do not ask us to further explain the entries in that file.
The NetHack 3.4.2 source code supports many different platforms
including most Unix versions. In addition to source code support, we
expect to supply binaries for Windows, DOS, Linux (tm), Apple Macintosh
(tm), Apple Macintosh OS X (tm), OS/2 (tm), Atari (tm), Amiga (tm),
Handheld PC Professional devices running Windows 2.11 or higher,
PocketPC platform devices (Windows CE 3.0, PocketPC 2000 and PocketPC
2002), and Palm Size PC 1.1 devices running Windows CE 2.11.
To download the game, go to the NetHack website and download from the
downloads page at <http://www.nethack.org/v342/downloads.html> . Mirrors
may be available in your area, or if your software doesn't get along with
the primary site(s).
See the following web page for a current list of mirrors:
<http://www.nethack.org/common/links.html#mirror>
Binaries for a given platform may take a day or so to become available.
Please be patient and don't log a problem report if a specific binary
release isn't immediately available.
Also, note that the Gnome toolkit interface, despite continued work, is
still considered an experimental option at this point in time.
Good news! The internal structure of bones and save files has not
changed between NetHack 3.4.1 and 3.4.2. If you use the same compiler,
and the same compile-time options, and you have not incorporated any
additional patches into 3.4.1 that altered the 3.4.1 save file format
on your system, then bones and save files from 3.4.1 should be compatible
with 3.4.2.
Official 3.4.2 binaries (those obtained from www.nethack.org or one of
its mirrors) should be compatible with save and bones files created from
official 3.4.1 binaries, at least in the forward direction (using
save/bones files generated by 3.4.1 with 3.4.2 binaries).
If you're compiling yourself, you need to guard against clobbering
existing save and/or bones files when using `make install'.
As with all releases of the game, we appreciate your feedback. Please
submit any bugs using the problem report sheet at
<http://www.nethack.org/common/contact.html>.
Also, please check the "known bugs" list at
<http://www.nethack.org/v342/bugs.html> before you log a problem -
somebody else may have already found it, after all.
Happy NetHacking!
For the DevTeam...
Mike Stephenson