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- 1st November 2024 - The November NetHack Tournament 2024 has started!
- 1st June 2024 - Junethack 2024 has begun!
- 24th May 2024 - EvilHack version 0.8.4 has been released. See this reddit post for more information.
- 25th November 2023 - Wiki has moved to new host in a new containerized environment.
Old news
- 1st November 2023 - The November NetHack Tournament 2023 has started.
- 14th September 2023 - EvilHack version 0.8.3 has been released. See this reddit post for more information.
- 29th May 2023 - xNetHack version 8.0 has been released. Details on Reddit here.
- 1st May 2023 - EvilHack version 0.8.2 has been released. See this reddit post for details.
- 16th February 2023 - NetHack 3.6.7 is released
- 15th December 2022 - EvilHack version 0.8.1 has been released. See this reddit post for details.
- 1st November 2022 - The November NetHack Tournament 2022 has begun.
- 1st June 2022 - Junethack 2022 has started!
- 18th April 2022 - EvilHack version 0.8.0 has been released. See this reddit post for details.
- 9th March 2022 - xNetHack version 7.0 is released. See this reddit post for details.
- 1st February 2022 - EvilHack version 0.7.1 has been officially released, please see this reddit post for details.
- 1st November 2021 - The November NetHack Tournament 2021 has begun.
- 1st June 2021 - Junethack 2021 has started!
- 26th May 2021 - #nethack IRC channel moved to irc.libera.chat
- 28th April 2021 - EvilHack version 0.7.0 has been released, please see this reddit post for details.
- 23rd March 2021 - xNetHack version 6.0 is released. See this reddit post for details.
- 1st November 2020 - The November NetHack Tournament has begun! See the wiki page for details.
- 15th July 2020 - The NetHack Scoreboard has new hosting and is on a new domain - https://nethackscoreboard.org.
- 1st June 2020 - Junethack 2020 has started
- 11th May 2020 - SpliceHack version 0.7.1 is released. See this reddit post for details.
- 25th April 2020 - Slash'EM Extended bleeding-edge release v266 is available.
- 10th April 2020 - xNetHack version 5.1 is released. See this reddit post for details.
- 5th April 2020 - EvilHack version 0.5.0 has been released, please see this reddit post for details.
- 8th March 2020 - NetHack 3.6.6 is released
- 27th January 2020 - NetHack 3.6.5 is released
- 23rd January 2020 - GnollHack public beta available for Windows.
- 20th December 2019 - NetHack 370-hdf (bleeding edge) is available for play on all Hardfought NetHack servers. Please see this reddit post for details.
- 18th December 2019 - NetHack 3.6.4 is released
- 18th December 2019 - Slash'EM Extended bleeding-edge release v260 is available.
- 5th December 2019 - NetHack 3.6.3 is released
- 28th October 2019 - NetHack 3.6.3 pre-release available in the Windows Store.
- 3rd October 2019 - The November NetHack Tournament for 2019 has been announced.
- 1st June 2019 - Junethack 2019 has started
- 20th May 2019 - EvilHack officially released - please see this reddit post for details.
- 8th May 2019 - NetHack 3.6.2 is released
- 25th March 2019 - Wiki upgraded to MediaWiki 1.32.0. Report breakage to User:Paxed
- 1st January 2019 - UnNetHack 5.2.0 has been released.
- 24th April 2019 - Slash'EM Extended bleeding-edge release v250 is available.
- 1st November 2018 - The November NetHack Tournament has begun!! Please see the wiki page here for details.
- 12th October 2018 - Player/clan sign up is now available for The November NetHack Tournament. Please see this Reddit post for details.
- 12th September 2018 - The November NetHack Tournament has been announced.
- 11th September 2018 - NetHack 3.6.2-hdf (bleeding edge) is available for play on all Hardfought NetHack servers. Please see this Reddit post for details.
- 12th May 2018 - NetHack 3.6.1-hdf is released for public server use - see this Reddit post for details.
- 18th July 2018 - Slash'EM Extended release version v227 is available.
- 28th April 2018 - NetHack 3.6.1 is released
- 27th April 2018 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v222 is available. Play online at em.slashem.me, View the source code at GitHub
- 21st October 2017 - /dev/null/nethack Tribute Tournament will start on November 1, 07:00 UTC
- 17th August 2017 - Wiki upgraded to MediaWiki 1.29.0.
- 22nd April 2017 - This wiki upgraded to MediaWiki 1.28.1, and underlying OS, database, library versions, and more were also upgraded.
- 1 November 2016 - devnull tournament 2016 starts at 07:00 UTC
- 4th July 2016 - Alex Smith (AceHack, NetHack 4) and Patric Mueller (UnNetHack) join the DevTeam
- 1st June 2016 - Junethack 2016 has started
- 11th February 2016 - Nethack now has an official public git repository.
- 23rd May 2016 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v171 is available. Play online at em.slashem.me (play via ssh), View the source
- 18th February 2016 - DynaHack 0.6.0 released
- 15th December 2015 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v151 is available. Play online at slashem.anderdonau.de (play via ssh), View the source code at GitHub
- 8th December 2015 - slashem.crash-override.net moved to slashem.anderdonau.de
- 7th December 2015 - NetHack 3.6.0 released!
- 1st December 2015 - devnull tournament 2015 has ended
- 1st November 2015 - devnull tournament 2015 has started
- 9th August 2015 - Wiki updated to MediaWiki 1.25
- 9th August 2015 - DynaHack can now be played online at ascension.run (play via SSH or web terminal).
- 12th July 2015 - This wiki has been migrated to a new, faster instance. If you're seeing this message, you're on the new server.
- 1st June 2015 - Junethack 2015 has started
- 26th April 2015 - The 81st @Play article, Rogue's Item ID in Too Much Yet Not Enough Detail, is up.
- 25th April 2015 - dNetHack 3.9 released. Play online at ascension.run (play via ssh), participate in the Ascend all Roles Competition
- 3rd April 2015 - The DevTeam announces that a new official Nethack version is still under active development.
- 2nd April 2015 - A beta, 4.3-beta2, of NetHack 4 is released.
- 2nd July 2015 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v122 is available. Play online at slashem.crash-override.net (play via ssh), View the source code at GitHub
- 1st April 2015 - A variant of NetHack4, NetHack Fourk is created.
- 22nd April 2015 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v115 is available. View the source code at GitHub
- 22nd April 2015 - Slash'EM Extended is removed from ascension.run.
- 11th March 2015 - The 80th @Play article, Welcome back to the Dungeons of Doom, is up.
- 27th February 2015 - John Harris continues his @Play articles.
- 25th January 2015 - dNetHack 3.8 released. Play online at acehack@acehack.de (play via ssh), participate in the Ascend all Roles Competition
- 12th February 2015 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v98 is available. Play online at acehack@acehack.de (play via ssh or play via tty)
- 13th December 2014 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v86 is available.
- 27th November 2014 - Wiki updated to MediaWiki 1.24
- 1st November 2014 - Once again it's time for the Devnull tournament.
- 21st September 2014 - The DevTeam confirms that a leaked pre-release of Nethack is authentic, and announces that version numbers 3.4.4 and 3.5.0 will not be used for future official releases.
- 10th September 2014 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v65 is available.]
- 27th August 2014 - Junethack 2014 Post Mortem.
- 30th June 2014 - Wiki updated to MediaWiki 1.23.1
- 19th May 2014 - Registration for the 2014 Junethack tournament is now open.
- 28th March 2014 - Wiki updated to MediaWiki 1.22.5
- 29th January 2014 - Wiki updated to MediaWiki 1.22.2
- 8th December 2013 - UnNetHack 5 has been released.
- 22nd September 2013 - DynaHack 0.5.0 released.
- 14th July 2014 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v50 is available.]
- 26th May 2014 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v42 is available.
- 4th September 2013 - Wiki updated to MediaWiki 1.21.2
- 3rd June 2013 - Wiki updated to MediaWiki 1.21.1
- 1st June 2013 - The 2013 Junethack tournament has started.
- 12th May 2014 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v32 is available.
- 26th April 2014 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v26 is available.
- 15th April 2014 - Slash'EM Extended stable release version v24 is available.
- 30th May 2013 - UnNetHackPlus 4.8 has been released.
- 25th May 2013 - Registration for the 2013 Junethack tournament is now open.
- 28th February 2013 - The NetHack quote database is back up; not all quotes have been restored.
- 9th November 2012 - Wiki updated to MediaWiki 1.20.0
- 18th August 2012 - nethack.fi public server updated, runs the same version as NAO.
- 1st June 2012 - Junethack 2012 - the second NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament has started.
- 5th May 2012 - Updated the wiki to use MediaWiki 1.19.0. Let me know if you notice anything wrong with it.
- 30th April 2012 - GruntHack 0.2.0 alpha 4 has been released.
- 1st April 2012 - "NetHack 4" 4.2.0, a merged version of AceHack and NitroHack, has been released.
- 1st April 2012 - UnNetHack 4.0.0 has been released.
- 1st April 2012 - GruntHack 0.2.0 alpha 3 has been released.
- 30th March 2012 - PSA: Wiki login problems? Cannot reset your password? EMail paxed at alt dot org
- 25th March 2012 - GruntHack 0.2.0 alpha 2 has been released.
- 15th March 2012 - GruntHack 0.2.0 alpha 1 has been released.
- 5th February 2012 - UnNetHack 3.6.1 has been released.
- 4th February 2012 - Updated the wiki to use MediaWiki 1.18.1. Due to a (now fixed) bug the wiki was requiring login when clicking any link in it.
- 27th January 2012 - NetHack-De 3.4.3-20120127a has been released.
- 16th January 2012 - NitroHack 4.0.0 has been released.
- 1st December 2011 - Final results for the Devnull tournament.
- 1st November 2011 - Once again it's time for the Devnull tournament.
- 23rd October 2011 - Ais523 and Ion frigate have been elected new admins.
- 16th October 2011 - Come vote on new admins.
- 8th October 2011 - UnNetHack 3.6.0 has been released.
- 4th October 2011 - Updated this wiki to use MediaWiki 1.17
- 14th August 2011 - Junethack 2011 - the first NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament is over. Read the post-mortem.
- 26th May 2011 - Rawrmage has set up a NetHack Quote Database
- 20th March 2011 - The seventy-eighth edition of the @Play series, entitled Excerpts from a Roguelike Encyclopedia, Part 1, is up.
- 22nd January 2011 - The seventy-seventh edition of the @Play series, entitled The Eight Rules of Roguelike Design, is up.
- 11th November 2010 - The seventy-sixth edition of the @Play series, entitled Check And Mate, is up.
- 9th November 2010 - The wiki has been moved away from Wikia, onto the same server as NAO. You can use your old Wikia credentials to log into this wiki if you have edited before the move! Technically, a separate account is transparently created for you the first time you log on.
- 13th October 2010 - The seventy-fifth edition of the @Play series, entitled Sprinting Rapidly Through The Dungeon, is up.
- 10th October 2010 - UnNetHack 3.5.3-1 has been released.
- 20th September 2010 - The seventy-fourth edition of the @Play series, entitled The Implementation Specifics Of Mayflight, is up.
- 4th September 2010 - UnNetHack 3.5.3 has been released.
- 2nd September 2010 - The seventy-third edition of the @Play series, entitled Introducing Mayflight - Using Roguelike Design Lessons in a Non-Roguelike, is up.
- 29th May 2010 - The seventy-second edition of the @Play series, entitled Chocobo's Dungeon for Wii, is up.
- 12th May 2010 - The seventy-first edition of the @Play series, entitled Purposes for Randomization in Game Design, is up.
- 7th April 2010 - The seventieth edition of the @Play series, entitled Enjoy A Coffee Break Of Victory With Desktop Dungeons, is up.
- 24th March 2010 - The sixty-ninth edition of the @Play series, entitled Wii-ren the Wanderer, is up.
- 3rd March 2010 - The sixty-eighth edition of the @Play series, entitled Crawlapalooza, Part 4: Travel Functions & Play Aids, is up.
- 18th February 2010 - The sixty-seventh edition of the @Play series, entitled Crawlapalooza, Part 3: Beogh Liturgical School For Orcs, is up.
- 16th February 2010 - Patric Mueller published the NetHack Poll 2009 results.
- 4th February 2010 - The sixty-sixth edition of the @Play series, entitled Crawlapalooza Part 2: What's With All These Skills, Anyway?, is up.
- 15th January 2010 - The sixty-fifth edition of the @Play series, entitled Crawlapalooza Part 1, Skills and Advancement, is up.
- 1st January 2010 - Happy New Year! Let's hope the next version will be published this year. :)
- 18th December 2009 - The sixty-fourth edition of the @Play series, entitled The Berlin Interpretation, is up.
- 25th November 2009 - The sixty-third edition of the @Play series, entitled Dreamforge's Dungeon Hack, is up.
- 7th November 2009 - nethack.alt.org now has discussion forums.
- 4th November 2009 - The NetHack Poll 2009 has opened. Take part and help the NetHack variant developers!
- 25th October 2009 - The sixty-second edition of the @Play series, entitled Item Design, Part 1: Potions and Scrolls, is up.
- 28th August 2009 - The sixty-first edition of the @Play series, entitled A Date With Asuka, is up.
- 5th August 2009 - The sixtieth edition of the @Play series, entitled Q&A with Keith Burgun of iPhone Roguelike "100 Rogues", is up.
- 3rd August 2009 - User:Tjr feels strong! He must have been exercising.
- 27th July 2009 - The fifty-ninth edition of the @Play series, entitled The Python Strikes! You Are Being Squeezed!, is up.
- 17th July 2009 - iNetHack is made available for iPhone and iPod Touch owners on the Apple App Store
- 3rd July 2009 - The fifty-eighth edition of the @Play series, entitled Introducing Sporkhack and UnNethack, is up.
- 26th June 2009 - The fifty-seventh edition of the @Play series, entitled Fatal Labyrinth, or, "LOOK! A PIT!", is up.
- 23th June 2009 - Sylvain Kerjean ported NetHack to BeOS. He is seeking help to get in touch with the dev team (sylvain.kerjean@hotmail.com).
- 18th June 2009 - Ben Newman ported NetHack to Ajax a while ago already. The port is called Nethax.
- 3rd June 2009 - The fifty-sixth edition of the @Play series, entitled 2009 7DRL Winners, Part Three, is up.
- 1st June 2009 - Patric Mueller announces a new variant, UnNetHack 3.5.1
- 14th May 2009 - The fifty-fifth edition of the @Play series, entitled The Rights to Rogue, is up.
- 6th May 2009 - The fifty-fourth edition of the @Play series, entitled How To Win At Nethack, is up.
- 21st April 2009 - The fifty-third edition of the @Play series, entitled 2009 7DRL Winners, Part Two, is up.
- 2nd April 2009 - The fifty-second edition of the @Play series, entitled 2009 7DRL Winners, Part One, is up.
- 25th March 2009 - Adman published NetHack Screen Saver 1.0 for Windows!
- 8th March 2009 - The fifty-first edition of the @Play series, entitled XRogue Has Not Yet Ceased To Be, is up.
- 7th March 2009 - User:paxed ascends to the status of Demigod...
- 16th February 2009 - JoaoSantos announces samurai, wizard, rogue and tourist zen ascensions! Congratulations!
- 13th February 2009 - User:Shijun feels strong! He must have been exercising.
- 6th February 2009 - The fiftieth edition of the @Play series, entitled Spelunk, Spelunk, Spelunk, is up. Happy fiftieth, @Play!
- 28th January 2009 - User:Ray Chason feels wise! He must have been very observant.
- 2nd January 2009 - The forty-ninth edition of the @Play series, entitled Cause For Incursion, is up.
- 3rd December 2008 - The forty-eighth edition of the @Play series, entitled Objects of Collection, is up.
- 3rd November 2008 - The forty-seventh edition of the @Play series, entitled Ten Years of the devnull Nethack Tournament, Part 2, is up.
- 1st November 2008 - The DevNull NetHack Tournament is on!
- 31st October 2008 - The forty-sixth edition of the @ Play series, entitled Ten Years Of The devnull Nethack Tournament, Part 1, is up.
- 21st October 2008 - The forty-fifth edition of the @ Play series, entitled Much About Monstania, is up.
- 2nd October 2008 - The forty-fourth edition of the @ Play series, entitled Phenomedom, Da Dee, Da-Dee-Dee, is up.
- 28th August 2008 - The forty-third edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 4th August 2008 - The forty-second edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 27th July 2008 - Clive Crous releases version 2.1.2 of the Vulture's interface for NetHack and SLASH'EM.
- 18th July 2008 - The forty-first edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 1st July 2008 - The fortieth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 20th June 2008 - The thirty-ninth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 2nd June 2008 - The thirty-eighth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 16th May 2008 - The thirty-seventh edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 26th April 2008 - The thirty-sixth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 28th March 2008 - The thirty-fifth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 9th March 2008 - The thirty-fourth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 4th March 2008 - Gary Gygax, father of the Fantasy RPG died. Talk of an honorary Xagygge (similar to Izchak) character for Nethack begins.
- 2nd February 2008 - Dudley's dungeon, the webcomic, reaches its 4th anniversary and opens an "audience survey".
- 19th January 2008 - The thirty-third edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 12th January 2008 - Clive Crous releases version 2.1.1 of the Vulture's interface for NetHack and SLASH'EM.
- 15th December 2007 - The thirty-second edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 7th November 2007 - The thirty-first edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 12th October 2007 - Robin announces the 2007 /dev/null/nethack Tournament. Pre-registrations are now open; tourney starts midnight at Halloween.
- 11th October 2007 - NetHackWiki has its second birthday! Congratulations!
- 9th October 2007 - The thirtieth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 24th September 2007 - The twenty-ninth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 6th September 2007 - The twenty-eighth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 21st August 2007 - The twenty-seventh edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 7th August 2007 - The twenty-sixth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 28th July 2007 - This is the 20th anniversary of the first release of NetHack, NetHack 1.3d.
- 8th July 2007 - Derek Ray announces a new variant, Sporkhack.
- 7th July 2007 - Angband 3.0.8 is released.
- 1st July 2007 - The June nethack.alt.org tournament ends. Congrats to all winners!
- 27th June 2007 - The twenty-third edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 5th June 2007 - The twenty-second edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 1st June 2007 - The June nethack.alt.org tournament begins.
- 22nd May 2007 - The twenty-first edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 9th May 2007 - A new site, the Temple of the Roguelike, opens.
- 8th May 2007 - The twentieth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 16th April 2007 - The nineteenth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 13th April 2007 - Watch out! Bad things can happen on Friday the 13th.
- 8th April 2007 - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.2.4 is released.
- 2nd April 2007 - The eighteenth edition of the @ Play series is up, the second issue of Roguelike. The magazine is released.
- 31st March 2007 - The DevTeam releases an improved tiles32 set.
- 20th March 2007 - The seventeenth edition of the @ Play series is up, the first issue of Roguelike. The magazine (RTM) is published.
- 6th March 2007 - The sixteenth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 19th February 2007 - The fifteenth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 6th February 2007 - The fourteenth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 22nd January 2007 - The thirteenth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 8th January 2007 - The twelfth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 30th December 2006 - SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F3 is released.
- 25th December 2006 - Calamarain drew three more artifacts; raxvulpine used dgamelaunch to set up a NAO-like server for Dungeon Crawl; the eleventh edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 21st December 2006 - Roger Barnett (calamarain) has drawn more of NetHack's quest artifacts. The Eyes of the Overworld appeared at 17th December; The Magic Mirror of Merlin went up two days later.
- 10th December 2006 - The tenth edition of the @ Play series is up — Happy tenth!
- 27th November 2006 - The ninth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 13th November 2006 - The eighth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 1st November 2006 - The 2006 /dev/null/nethack tournament is on! Visit http://nethack.devnull.net for information. First ascension: 'kazuality' ascends a Samurai, see scoreboard.
- 29th October 2006 - The seventh edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 15th October 2006 - The sixth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 19th October 2006 - BBC News reports that scientists used a crude cloak of invisibility to hide copper from microwaves.
- 17th October 2006 - The index page of NAO now links to NetHackWiki!
- 11th October 2006 - NetHackWiki is 1 year old today, with just over 3000 articles!
- 2nd October 2006 - The fifth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 25th September - In the past month, NetHackWiki has more than doubled in size to over 2500 articles! Excellent work, @s.
- 20th September - The fourth edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 5th September 2006 - The third edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 31st August 2006 - The complete source codes of Hack 1.0, NetHack 1.3d and NetHack 1.4f have been uploaded to NetHackWiki.
- 27th August 2006 - The second edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 25th August 2006 - NetHackWiki has 1000 articles! Well done, @s.
- 7th August 2006 - RogueBasin, a wiki about all roguelike games, recently moved to roguelikedevelopment.org.
- 6th August 2006 - The first edition of the @ Play series is up.
- 18th July 2006 - Michael Olson announces a GP2X port of NetHack 3.4.3: RGRN post, blog.