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• 25th July 2026 - Upgraded mediawiki to 1.43.9. Lots of changes: NetHackWiki:Software updates/2026 MediaWiki 1.43
• 26th May 2026 - xNetHack version 10.0 is released. See this reddit post for details.
• 25th May 2026 - EvilHack version 0.9.3 has been released. See this reddit post for details.
• 13th May 2026 - CrecelleHack version 1.5.0 has been released. See this reddit post for details.
• 2nd May 2026 - NetHack 5.0.0 is released. The version is a renaming of NetHack 3.7.0.
• 1st January 2026 - EvilHack version 0.9.2 has been released. See this reddit post for details.
• 6th July 2025 - We've been battling a ludicrous increase in bot traffic, so the site is now behind a Cloudflare WAF to help mitigate things.
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• Violet Fungus corpse - Hallucination?
• One of the Ring appearances doesn't work?
• YANI: Sacrifices change depending on alignment
• Updating the wiki to 5.0.0
• Not enough artifact variety
• Is Stasis here to stay?
• Odd 5.0.0 cancellation observation
• Trapped pets or tamed monsters in Nethack 5
• The new site problem
• Piously neutral Monk Expelled by neutral Quest Leader - Why?

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EvilHack is a variant initially based on NetHack 3.6.2, created by Keith Simpson (also known as User:K2). Work on EvilHack began on October 20th 2018, and it was released for public play in April of 2019 on the Hardfought public NetHack servers. The Github repository for EvilHack can be found at https://github.com/k21971/EvilHack; a direct link to the change log can be found here, and is updated on a regular basis. The latest build of EvilHack incorporates the official release build of NetHack 3.6.7 as well as several bugfixes from NetHack 3.7.0 (EvilHack version 0.8.3-0 Beta - last build Tue Oct 17 01:24:29 2023 UTC - git commit 42728f6). To download the official release (version 0.8.2), which includes Windows binaries, visit this link.

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