Congratulations adventurer!Your quest is at an end for you have reached the home of NetHack.Within, the Wizard of Yendor has no power, the Oracle speaks withutmost clarity, and the grid bugs do not bite.Click friend and enter.April 3, 2015 AnnouncementAs a rule, the DevTeam does not volunteer information or comment on ourplans or schedules.  However, at this time we'd like to make anexception to that rule and provide a brief update on what's been happening:As just about everybody knows, an incident occurred about six months agowith respect to an unauthorized distribution of the NetHack source codein a very unfinished state.  Since then, the team has been working onseveral initiatives.  Despite a lot of opinions to the contrary, wearen't dead and we haven't given up on the game.Over the past months we've added some members of the greater NetHackdevelopment community to the team.  Specifically; Sean Hunt, Derek S.Ray and Pasi Kallinen are now members of the Team and have been activelyhelping develop the next release with selected inclusions from some ofthe NetHack community code bases.We've also made a significant time investment in upgrades to ourunderlying development infrastructure, which will be rolled out with thenext release. Many thanks to Keni who's been instrumental in making surethe underlying foundations that allow the team to do what it does are there.Now for the inevitable question:  When will the next release happen?In that respect I'm going to have to fall back on the usual answer - wedon't advertise our release dates.  To do so would break a long-standingNetHack tradition, but there is a more important reason.  Given theamount of time since the previous release, and considering what's beenintegrated into it, knocking the bugs out of it may not be as easy anexercise as in the past so we're loath to commit to a date and havesomething throw us off.For the DevTeamMike StephensonSeptember 21, 2014 AnnouncementThe NetHack Development Team feels it is necessary to publiclyaddress an issue that has surfaced in the last week.Recently a NetHack source distribution has appeared, claiming tobe NetHack 3.5 or 3.5.0 or 3.4.4.This claim is partially correct.  This is our code.  However it wasnot released by us or with our authorization.  This code is notready for release: it is unfinished, unpolished, and almost certainlyvery buggy.  It has not been play-tested for balance or functionality.It is best considered a partial and unfinished rough draft.  Wewill not be supporting this code, nor will we be releasing binariesor bugfixes for it.  It will not be available through our website.Due to this incident and to prevent confusion, we will not now norin the future release anything with a version number of 3.4.4, 3.5,or 3.5.0.We thank those of you who play and develop both NetHack and itsmany variants for your support and encouragement at this time andover the many years NetHack and its progeny have and continue toevolve.Current VersionClick here for i