2015-04-03
As a rule, the DevTeam does not volunteer information or comment on our
plans or schedules. However, at this time we'd like to make an
exception to that rule and provide a brief update on what's been happening:
As just about everybody knows, an incident occurred about six months ago
with respect to an unauthorized distribution of the NetHack source code
in a very unfinished state. Since then, the team has been working on
several initiatives. Despite a lot of opinions to the contrary, we
aren't dead and we haven't given up on the game.
Over the past months we've added some members of the greater NetHack
development community to the team. Specifically; Sean Hunt, Derek S.
Ray and Pasi Kallinen are now members of the Team and have been actively
helping develop the next release with selected inclusions from some of
the NetHack community code bases.
We've also made a significant time investment in upgrades to our
underlying development infrastructure, which will be rolled out with the
next release. Many thanks to Keni who's been instrumental in making sure
the 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 - we
don't advertise our release dates. To do so would break a long-standing
NetHack tradition, but there is a more important reason. Given the
amount of time since the previous release, and considering what's been
integrated into it, knocking the bugs out of it may not be as easy an
exercise as in the past so we're loath to commit to a date and have
something throw us off.
For the DevTeam
Mike Stephenson
