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General Fixes and Modified Features
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doc/*.6 man pages and corresponding doc/*.txt text copies were out of date
data.base entry for "lava" had wrong first name for Don Woods' attribution
cursed genocide of "none" sent in monsters, but "that's enough tries" didn't
update MAXPLAYERS documentation in sysconf file and accept 0 for 'no limit'
wizard mode: don't include feedback about named fruit for ^X and enlightenment
looking at distant objects while wearing the Eyes of the Overworld made their
        up-close descriptions known when not intended
message when cursed wand zapped by a monster happens to explode was suppressed
        if hero was deaf, even though that message has no audible component
support explicit 'symset:default' and 'symset:Default symbols' in options
crash during startup if player name set as 'player' in defaults
crash during startup if defaults file has a long line
any existing vampire shape-shifted into critter (fog cloud, bat, wolf) became
        an unkillable critter if vampires were genocided
unlike in previous versions, an uncursed scroll of enchant armor failed to
        uncurse the piece of armor being enchanted (change was unintentional)
slice of {pizza,cake,&} pluralized as "slouse of ..." due to false match
        with "lice" (discovered pre-3.6.0-release)
change dipping prompt to not ignore 'called' and 'named' attributes of item
        to be dipped
avoid 'the unlabeled {scroll,spellbook} fades' when blank item is hit by water
wrong message given when high priest on astral plane rejects being assigned a
        name (got the one for unique monsters instead of the one for priests)
negative intrinsic protection shouldn't confer MC=1, "you are warded" (not
        possible from divine protection but is possible from eating rings)
make a slight adjustment to the quickmimic() sense wording
fix typo in passage 1 of The Colour of Magic
fix typos in passages 2 and 6 of Thud!
falling asleep when reading dull spellbook ignored sleep resistance
getpos() complaint about invalid movement keystroke didn't describe meta-chars
        accurately
'realtime' value in xlogfile was incorrect if 'checkpoint' option was active
make a previously-discovered scroll written with marker while blind have its
        label known so it can be read while blind
#name or C for discoveries list that spanned multiple pages would exit on
        space instead of advancing to next page (workaround: use '>' instead)
don't show the old level when you die going down the stairs because of an
        iron ball
new high score with ", while helpless" attribute appended would erroneously
        result in ", while helpless" being appended to all scores
allow bright aliases for colors in menucolors
avoid hearing yelps when you are deaf
make corpse visible if stethoscope told you about it being there
sceptre of might database entry word change
avoid "spellbook of novel" on discoveries list after object ID of novel
add novel to discoveries list after reading one
putting gold into hero-owned container on shop floor gave free credit
stack splitting for dipping large quantities of potions was done poorly
dipping fruit juice into enlightenment gave different result than the inverse
make travel walk up to a trap and stop when the trap blocks the only
        way forward, instead of trying to go straight line
travel will displace pets rather than stop
discard travel cache when moving to a different dungeon level
do not autopickup unpaid items in shops
death due an unseen gas spore's explosion resulted in "killed by a died"
allow optional parameter "true", "yes", "false", or "no" for boolean options
actually make the castle chest not trapped
level-drain resistance wasn't shown during enlightenment if it was conferred
        by worn/wielded equipment or by lycanthropy
wizard mode enlightenment now shows more reasons for various intrinsics
rehumanizing after being poly'd into vampire left hero with ability to sense
        humans and elves
Warn_of_mon wouldn't have been able to sense giant ants if any creature were
        to have that ability, caused by using 0 instead of NON_PM for 'none'
tone down energy vortex's drain energy attack
fix message typo if tame mind flayer dies trying to eat Medusa's brains
use alternate rejection message if attempting to name an unnameable monster
        with the name it already has
cockatrice corpse no longer leaves multiple statues for shape-shifted vampire
alter name of monster causing hero's death if name contains characters that
        could cause confusion when using record, logfile, or xlogfile later
teleporting or polymorphing a sink via ring drop shouldn't depend upon being
        able to see it happen
change "unlockable chest" to "broken chest" so that it won't be misunderstood
        ("capable of being unlocked" vs intended "not capable of being locked")
use doname instead of xname when using '/' or ';' to look at objects on map
when a pet moves reluctantly, name the top item of the pile it is reluctant
        to step on if the hero sees or remembers any object(s) at that spot
ensure sufficient messages are given to clarify the transition from detected 
        vampire bats to fog clouds in Vlad's tower
fix "killing by kicking something weird" when kicking an object causes death
guard macros available for mextra fields similar to those for oextra fields
compile-time option for an alternate paniclog format for public server use
make monsters forget where they stepped when fleeing or teleporting
requiver pickup_thrown objects if quiver is empty
make mimics mimicing walls or trees also block light
stepping onto lava destroyed non-fireproof water walking boots but left other
        vulnerable boot types intact
damage and death reasons when eating globs referred to them as corpses
fix death reason when petrified (avoid redundant 'while getting stoned')
use appropriate place name for drum of earthquake shakes
fix unmapped branch stairs on sokoban level
redraw map when hilite_pile is toggled to display the highlighting
make commands that accept a count prefix for item selection
        show "Count:" like command repeating does
make vault guard accept names starting with number
fix weight of containers in special levels
make the raven medusa level shortsighted
fix possible segfault in lev_comp when map was too tall
fix "the ice is bridged with ice" when freezing castle's moat or Medusa's sea
make monsters and pets avoid poison gas clouds if it would damage them
covetous monsters may choose to teleport to downstairs or ladders
doppelganger posing as Rider would never change shape
since doppelganger posing as Rider could never revert to innate form,
        protection from shape changers turned it into genuine Rider
don't create globs of ooze/slime/pudding with bknown flag set so pre-known to
        be "uncursed"
do allow globs with same curse/bless state to merge even when that state is
        known for one and unknown for the other; result will have bknown clear
make glob merging on floor behave the same as glob merging in inventory
track age of merged globs
support globs for edibility temporary intrinsic
restore ability to gain intrinsics from black puddings (pass globs to cpostfx)
eating tainted black pudding (glob in 3.6.0, corpse in 3.4.x and 3.3.x)
        referred to it as "meat" (because it's not vegetarian food)
fix pile mark after killing a monster carrying a potion which is destroyed
don't list suit as likely candidate for Take-off if cloak blocks it
only list known blank scrolls and known blank spellbooks as likely candidates
        when choosing an item to write on for applied magic marker
make status hilites use same color names as menucolors
limit monster spell aggravate monsters to either outside or inside of the
        Wizard's tower
prevent revived unique from inheriting a user-defined name
make hurtling out of water bubble on the Plane of Water handle entering water
fix floor descriptions on the Planes when levitating
fix warning glyph description when monster symbol coincided the warning symbol
allow the same color names for status hilites and menucolors
override MSGTYPE=norep while executing the ':' command
if a chameleon took vampire form, it would stop periodically changing shape
corpses obtained from tipping an ice box wouldn't rot away
suppress "you climb up the stairs" message if verbose option is off
physical damage from mind flayer attack was being inflicted twice
adjust pending movement points when polymorphing into a slower creature
damage inflicted by burning glob of green slime gave wrong messages
monsters fleeing up the upstairs on level 1 were supposed to escape the
        dungeon but ended up arriving on Plane of Earth
monster hitting fire-dealing monster with weapon triggered passive damage to
        weapon every time, when hero doing so only had 1/6 chance per hit
hitting steam vortex with flammable weapon would damage the weapon with fire
if a non-cursed spellbook being read becomes cursed and hero recognizes that
        (bknown is set), interrupt reading
if a non-cursed spellbook being read becomes cursed and hero doesn't notice,
        don't leave it flagged as in-use (hence to be deleted during the
        next save/restore cycle) if contact-poison cursed book effect occurs
stolen_value, used when breaking shop items from outside the shop among other
        times, could describe the shopkeeper as "it" when not seen
when two or more shopkeepers were visible at once, 'p' command could be used
        to probe map for locations of other shopkeepers and arbitrary monsters
vortexes and other unsolid monsters need not avoid webs
barbarian and samurai can achieve basic in their special spell's skill
scalpel and tsurugi can now split puddings; bashing with darts or arrows can't
jumping while punished could leave ball and chain in the wrong place
improve Deaf message handling for the minetown watch and shops
issues with Warning when you're adjacent to an undetected hider; clearly you
        are aware a monster is present so this causes you to search it out
allow lookup of names like Hachi when selecting monsters from the map
lookup "More Info?" prompt will now tell you what it will look for on 'y'
using 'R' on armor would bypass some restrictions imposed by 'T' (inner layer
        could be taken off from under outer layer, embedded scales could be
        attempted but triggered "select_off" impossible)
when examining hidden monsters (probing, persistent monster detection), tell
        how they're hidden (under an object, on the ceiling, etc)
some quest text corrections
use a much tighter upper bound when summoning nasties; old method could
        theoretically create 200 critters at a time
if a long worm inherited inventory from a previous shape, and if an egg or
        figurine in that inventory hatched or auto-activated, messages were
        given when hero could see any tail segment even if head was unseen,
        making it seem as if worm's inventory was kept in the visible segment
Wizard will now steal any quest artifact from hero, not just own role's
prevent a hostile renegade Angel of <lawful god> from delivering taunt
        messages which mention threats of retribution from that god
a few types of monster (barrow wight, Nazgul, erinys) have weapon attacks that
        don't deal physical damage, so special damage like stoning via wielded
        cockatrice corpse wouldn't be inflicted
non-item-using monsters who happened to be carrying scroll or wand of fire or
        a fire horn could use it to cure themselves of being turned into slime
when looting multiple containers, add 'n' for "loot next container", change
        'q' and ESC from "done with this container" to "done looting"
change looting to choose ":iobrs nq" action from a menu for menustyle:Partial
wand/spell/breath zaps that reached the edge of the level on the Plane of Air
        and "vanished into the aether" left temporary display effects on screen
stop amulets and other items which aren't affected by erosion damage from
        being subjected to erosion damage
grammar bit: polyself w/ gender change yielded "you turn into a Elvenking"
grammar bit when hallucinating: "you kill poor goblin" ('the' missing for pet)
some blindness cures ignored u.ucreamed
some instances of stun or confusion timers were being overridden rather than
        incremented when new stun or confusion damage was suffered
female gnome who gains level can grow up into male-only gnome lord; give an
        an alternate message instead of prohibiting the promotion
kicked weapon which successfully hits monster vanishes from play
unseen landmine explosion could result in "The <monst-type> statue crumbles."
when using the 'O' command for regexp options (autopickup exceptions,
        menucolors, message types), provide opportunity to add more than one
        at a time [after 'add', return to add/list/remove menu]
commands invoked by uppercase meta characters: M-A, M-C, M-N, M-O, M-R, M-T
        were missing from '? c' list of game commands (dat/hh)
tweak Baalzebub's lair and clean up the map display for it
symbol set definitions didn't recognize S_darkroom and S_vibrating_square
wizard mode enlightenment was reporting "very fast innately" (which is not
        possible) for very fast hero who was innately fast
when attacking a monster with a rust or corrosion or acid passive
        counter-attack, grease wasn't protecting the attacker's weapon
the Bell of Opening now correctly reports when it opens a trapdoor/hole
knocking can no longer send a monster through a trapdoor/hole and desaddle it
game no longer gets confused when you break an unpaid shop item while inside
        a different shop
shopkeepers now correctly handle nested containers and gold in containers
for menustyle traditional, 'D' followed by (B|U|C|X)&m presented a menu of
        everything, not just invent subset matching specified BUCX categories
for menustyles traditional or combination, 'A' (or object ID) followed by i
        displayed an inventory of everything rather than just worn items (or
        not fully identified items)
exploding chest trap would destroy uchain while still worn if uball carried
if monster shapechange message "<foo> turns into <bar>!" was given, <bar>
        could be "it" (if <foo> sensed telepathically and <bar> is mindless)
automatic annotation for Ft.Ludios level got applied when a drawbridge became
        mapped, but entry there is a secret door rather than a drawbridge
sortloot changed to group holy water and unholy water with water instead of
        placing them among the h- and u-named items
sortloot changed to place diluted potion of foo after potion of foo instead
        of listing all diluted potions followed by all non-diluted ones
digging down on a grave converted the terrain to floor but did not create a
        pit and uncover the grave's contents; digging again--on floor--did
when feel_location removed a remembered-unseen-monster glyph from a known
        water location while hero was levitating, the map was redrawn showing
        floor instead of water at that spot
Vlad's tower2 and tower3 didn't show up in wizard-mode ^O output or ^V? menu
remove extra space from "All of your  <stack-of-potions> boil and explode."
        (also applies to potions freezing and to scrolls burning)
effects of cursed potion of levitation were skipped if already levitating
when engulfed, having swallower be killed by angry deity trying to zap hero
        no longer violates pacifist conduct (other penalties--reduced luck or
        alignment--still apply if target is something you shouldn't kill)
likewise when a monster kills inself trying to prevent turning to stone or
        into slime that's been caused by the player, pacifism is not affected
metabolism adjustments: hero poly'd into metallivore form still needs to eat;
        being fainted or unconscious from other than sleep now consumes
        nutrition at lower rate, like being asleep already did;
        starvation threshold shortened due to slower food use while fainting
after using detection magic or #terrain while underwater, then leaving water
        and saving while on land, save would flag you as underwater again and
        then restore would limit the map display accordingly; next move would
        notice, retify things, and report "you are on solid land again"
change #terrain used while underwater to view the regular map rather than the
        crippled underwater one
can see or feel adjacent lava or ice when underwater
farlook when underwater now reports "land" for adjacent non-{water,lava,ice}
        and "unreconnoitered" for non-adjacent anything, instead of "dark part
        of a room" for the former and either dark-room or "unexplored" for the
        latter depending upon whether the spot had previously been scouted
monster who accidentally killed itself by zapping wand of fire or fire horn
        at self to prevent turning into slime was not properly killed off;
        it wouldn't benefit from an amulet of life saving and would trigger
        impossible "dmonsfree: N removed doesn't match M pending"
resurrecting a shopkeeper corpse caused crash (replmon -> replshk -> inhishop
        -> no eshk data for temporary monster being replaced with revived shk)
new character with OPTIONS=role:Valk,race:!human,align:!lawful yielded
        "Shall I pick your Dwarven Valkyrie's for you?" where !human forces
        dwarf and dwarf forces lawful, contradicting align:!lawful
new character with OPTIONS=role:Valk,race:random yielded
        "Shall I pick your Valkyrie's race and alignment for you?" instead
        of honoring race:random without asking
while in shop, undead turning at self causing carried, hero owned corpse to
        resurrect claimed it belonged to shopkeeper
while in shop, stone-to-flesh at self causing carried, hero owned figurine
        or statue to animate claimed it belonged to shopkeeper
reviving one of a stack of N corpses in a shop charged a usage fee for all N;
        remaining N-1 were owned by hero if carried but by shop if on floor
gremlin wailing in agony should wake up nearby monsters
add more lighting variance to the second bigroom variant
when getpos was picking a location, typing '^' to move to the next known trap
        skipped some detected traps if their location was unseen
describe detected door traps and chest traps as trapped door and trapped chest
        instead of bear trap; bear trap tile is still used on map though
thrown potion that killed peaceful monster would cause "the <mon> gets argry"
        after the message about it being killed
when poly'd into a hider and engulfed, attempt to hide via #monster was blocked
        but feedback said "can't hide while held" rather than "while engulfed"
various monster/object/food/gold/trap detections were inconsistent in how they
        behaved if performed while engulfed or underwater
show in inventory which monster a leash is attached to
using /? to look up something by name, supplying multiple spaces (with no
        other characters) as the name triggered impossible "singular of null?"
add support for the 'altmeta' option to the 'what-does' command ('&' or '?f')
when wielded weapon becomes untouchable (after alignment change or polymorph)
        hero could be 'blasted by its power' twice in succession
at startup, if sysconf had been read but user's own config file couldn't be
        read, sysconf got processed again as if it contained user's options
don't give "you cannot pass through the bars" when travel is testing possible
        paths in the vicinity of iron bars
if blind and no gloves, using 'm<dir>' to move and then 'e' could be used to
        locate cockatrice corpse without fatal touching (by declining to eat)
it's cannabilism for a were<foo> to eat a <foo> corpse
conduct: wishing for an artifact and not getting it because it already exists
        counts as wishing for an artifact, just like when not getting it
        because of quest restrictions or too many artifacts in play does
avoid ring of poison resistance as starting equipment for orcish wizard
gelatinous cube shouldn't be able to eat a scroll of scare monster
make fireballs or cones of cold cast a skilled or higher not go through walls
prevent flying monsters from hovering over unreachable underwater objects
lembas wafer gives increased nutrition to elves, reduced nutrition to orcs;
        cram ration gives increase nutrition to dwarves
when #tip's terse object drop format got interrupted by a regular message,
        it continued using "obj2, obj3, ..." for subsequent objects, where
        the sentence grammar no longer made sense (the interrupting message
        still follows the comma of a partial sentence--attempting to fix that
        seems hopeless; leaving it is better than always using verbose format)
for #tip inside shop, credit was incorrectly given for spilled gold if that
        gold's stale location coordinates didn't happen to be inside the shop
when confused scroll of light summoned lights, player would be asked what to
        call the scroll even if scroll of light was already identified
if a visible monster becomes invisible, mark its spot with the 'remembered,
        unseen monster' glyph ('I' character or '?' tile)
monsters can throw cockatrice eggs at hero, but there was no handling for eggs
        when the missile hit an intervening monster
clarify that shape-shifted vampires revert to vampire form when petrified or
        digested; when back in 'V' form, they're vulnerable to such damage
when poly'd into an engulfer which does digestion damage, a kill resulting in
        a level gain gave "welcome to level N+1" before "you digest <victim>"
any corpse eaten by omnivorous hero always tasted "terrible"
eating the corpse of a unique non-named monster (Wizard of Yendor, Oracle,
        Chromatic Dragon, others) gave "The the <monster corpse> tastes ..."
when escaping the dungeon, change "you were here" annotation in dungeon
        overview to "you left from here"
option parsing will crash if 'playmode' option is present without a value
any item drained of enchantment was blamed on the player as far as shop
        billing was concerned, even if caused by disenchanter attack
if user supplied a specific monster name when asked to choose a monster class,
        first prefix match was picked rather than best match ("titan" yielded
        S_quadruped due to being preceded by "titanothere" in mons[])
change ing_suffix() to not double final 'w' when adding 'ing' ('t=' yielded
        "You mime throwwing something.")
using 'D' to drop when not carrying anything finished (after doing nothing)
        without giving any feedback for menustyles "full" and "partial"
"you hear a distant <musical note> squeak" might actually be nearby
differentiate symset and roguesymset option menu prompts
don't show monster vs. monster attack message, if the message refers to
        a monster that cannot be sensed by the hero
umber hulk gazing at hidden mimic forces mimic to unhide
show some timed hero properties in wizard-mode #timeout
give quest guardians some equipment
hero polyed into ghoul can only eat non-veggy corpses or eggs
kicking activates statue traps
pets start with apport equal to your charisma
sometimes generate the random mazes with wide corridors, thick walls,
        or with dead ends changed to loops


Fixes to Post-3.6.0 Problems that Were Exposed Via git Repository
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fix "object lost" panic during pickup caused by sortloot revamp
more sortloot revisions
fix inventory menu for response of '?' to getobj (more sortloot revamp fallout)
rings covered by non-cursed gloves not listed as 'R' candidates
in baalz_fixup, move any monster away from the two fake pool spots
switching farlook from xname to doname was giving away information for items
        located via object detection (quantity of detected gold)
changing doname to use "some" instead of precise quantity when an item's
        dknown flag is not set could result in blind hero getting
        "There is a some jackal corpses here.  Eat one?" and
        "You can only lift some of the some jackal corpses.  Continue?"
catch up win/Qt/qt_win.cpp on 18-Dec-2015 change to formatkiller()
fix for long lines in config file (28-Jan-2016) made 'O' command's 'list' and
        'remove' menu choices in interactive handling for menu colorings,
        message types, and autopickup exceptions subject to buffer overflow
when picking a destination for #jump, '$' to show valid dest. is more accurate
enchant armor gave "your pair of boots/gloves glow", should have been "glows"
when autopickup is overridden in a shop, always-pick-up exceptions and
        pickup_thrown still picked unpaid items up


Platform- and/or Interface-Specific Fixes
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tiles: wrinkled spellbook had a spurious brown pixel on far right edge of tile
tiles: when statues are displayed as corresponding monsters, total_tiles_used
        in generated src/tile.c had incorrect value
tty: M-N gave "Unknown command 'M-" with "'." finishing the sentence on the
        line below it, leaving bogus '.' displayed on the top row of the map
tty: specifying all four of role, race, gender, and alignment still prompted
        for confirmation with "Is this ok?" before starting play
tty: responding with <return> or <enter> during role, race, &c selection
        behaved same as <escape> to quit; now it will pick [random] instead
tty: rename struct variable 'filter' (role.c) and function 'winch()' (wintty.c)
        to avoid conflicts with <curses.h>
tty: skip selector letter and selection indicator (-,+,#) during menu coloring
tty: '>' no longer closes a menu window
tty: if color is disabled and use_inverse is enabled, display lava in inverse
        video so that it is visually distinguishable from water
tty: if "--More--" was written to leftmost column (beginning of second line)
        while hero was swallowed, cursor would end up in wrong place (at end
        of status line instead back on map) after message line was cleared
tty: long message lines which wrap when shown on the top line might be
        re-displayed incorrectly by ^P for msg_window={full,combo,reverse}
unix/X11: in top level Makefile, some commented out definitions of VARDATND
        misspelled pilemark.xbm (as pilemark.xpm)
unix: options file with CR+LF line ends and an invalid option line resulted in
        "ad option line: "whatever-the-line-was
        because embedded carriage return character changed cursor's position
unix: race condition with parallel make: src/Makefile might start building
        makedefs before finishing monst.o and objects.o; if so, util/Makefile
        can build them too, and they might be clobbered by simultaneous write
unix: Makefile.{src,utl} ignored CPPFLAGS which is expanded by the default .c
        rule by GNU make so if user had a value for that in the environment,
        it would apply to some files but not others; explicitly override it
win32gui: getversionstring() was overflowing the provided Help About buffer
win32gui: guard against buffer overflow in in mswin_getlin()
win32gui: handle menu_color attribute
MacOSX: initial binary release was built from out of date source code that
        had 'BETA' and 'DEBUG' inappropriately enabled
MacOSX: force TIMED_DELAY build option on so that 'runmode' run-time option
        is functional
Qt: could issue impossible "Destroy called before we know if Menu or Text"
        followed by crash caused by deferencing a Null pointer if player quit
        immediately after creating character and declined to disclose anything
X11: core bug for '`' (backtick) and #terrain commands was only noticed by
        X11 interface: impossible "add_menu: called before start_menu"
X11: enable a scroll bar in menu windows
X11: support pre-selected entries in menu windows
X11: make the extended command menu be easier to use and look a little nicer
X11: make the getline text entry widget display a bigger text entry area
X11: color didn't work when the map was displayed as text rather than tiles
X11: use grayscale monster tiles for statues
X11/USE_XPM: [post-3.6.0 issue] the 'tiles' bug of incorrect total_tiles_used
        for STATUES_LOOK_LIKE_MONSTERS broke XPM manipulation of tiles data


General New Features
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naming Sting or Orcrist now breaks illiterate conduct
different feedback for reading a scroll of mail created by writing with marker
reading non-cursed scroll of enchant weapon uncurses welded tin opener
if hero has no jumping ability but knows the jumping spell, the #jump command
        will attempt to cast the spell
allow moving cursor to monsters with 'm' (nearest first) and 'M' (furthest
        first) when asked for map location, or to objects with 'o' and 'O'
allow picking a used inventory letter from menu when #adjusting
zapping wand of opening at yourself, unlock carried boxes
dissolve iron bars by force-fighting with wielded potion of acid
poison breath leaves a trail of poison gas
allow knife and stiletto as possible tin opening tools
wizard mode #wizintrinsic command
additional tribute passages for The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic,
        Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Guards! Guards!,
        Eric, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Witches Abroad, Snuff,
        Raising Steam, and The Shepherd's Crown
compile-time options SIMPLE_MAIL and SERVER_ADMIN_MSG for public server use
database entries for Cleaver, Sunsword, Frost and Fire brands, and
        polymorph trap
allow showing coordinates when picking a position on the map and
        autodescribe option is on
new status line conditions Stone Strngl Deaf Lev Fly Ride
allow some extra color name aliases for menucolors and status hilites
add extended command #kick
when choosing an inventory item and '-' for bare-hands/fingers/no-ammo is a
        choice, include that in the inventory menu if player types '?' or '*'
feedback from probing of long worm now includes number of segments it has
monk starts with 'shuriken' pre-discovered (despite language issue...)
item-using monster on or next to a fire trap can use it to be cured of
        turning into slime
wizard mode ^G can now specify "sleeping", "male" or "female" when
        creating a monster
REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD is new config.h setting to fetch build date+time from
        environment instead of using current date+time, so that later rebuild
        could duplicate the original (disabled by default; tested for Unix)
default value for vibrating square symbol changed from yellow '^' to purple '~'
allow symbol set values to be specified via char within single quotes
add symbols set "plain", same as default except it uses '+' for corner walls
extend wizard-mode '#stats' command
'Q' to ready an item for quick-throwing ('f') now allows the wielded weapon to
        be moved to quiver; if quantity is more than 1, it offers to split the
        stack and leave 1 wielded, otherwise it requires confirmation
'Q' will accept an item count to manually split a stack as part of it being
        quivered, provided the stack isn't already in the quiver slot
during end of game disclosure, the vanquished monsters list can be sorted in
        one of several ways by answering 'a' to "disclose vanquished monsters?"
when #terrain is displaying a censored version of the map (no monsters, &c),
        moving the cursor will display farlook's brief autodescribe feedback
when monster/object/trap detection temporarily clears the map to highlight the
        results of such detection, farlook autodescibe can be used to view it
interrupt a multi turn action if hp or pw is restored to maximum
pressing d or D when cursor positioning targets doors and doorways
pressing x or X when cursor positioning targets possibly unexplored location
        (potentially useful when using '_' [not mouse] to invoke travel)
swallowers can't re-engulf hero immediately after spitting him/her out
werejackals can summon foxes and coyotes; werewolves can summon wargs
allow taming monkeys and apes with bananas
GENERICUSERS is now a sysconf statement instead of compile-time option
fountains are bright blue
ray bounceback chance depends on the wall type
undead #turning takes less time at higher experience level
peacefuls may react when you attack other peacefuls
prevent diagonal jumping through open doorways
different liquids when hallucinating
when moving a cursor for travel target, show if there is no known travel
        path to that location, if "autodescribe" is on
show the reason why travel was interrupted if mention_walls is on
random horses have a tiny chance of being generated saddled
give feedback just before timed levitation runs out
travel accepts 'm' (request menu) prefix
pressing a or A when cursor positioning shows menu of "interesting" features
wizard-mode command #wizmakemap to recreate the current level


Platform- and/or Interface-Specific New Features
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tty: menu_overlay -option to clear screen and align menus to left
tty: compile-time option to output escape codes for tile data hints
unix: compile-time option MSGHANDLER to pass messages to external program
unix: add CHECK_PLNAME-option to sysconf to make WIZARDS, EXPLORERS, and
        SHELLERS check player's character name instead of login name
X11: new NetHack*highlight_prompt resource to control whether the persistent
        prompt line between the map and message windows for the NetHack*slow
        configuration will be highlighted when it's expecting input
X11: NetHack*extcmd_height_delta resource can be used to adjust initial size
        of the extended commands menu
X11: status display split into three columns to accomodate Stone/Deaf/Lev/&c;
        NetHack*status_condition.foreground, .background, and .showGrip
        resources replaced by status_condition[1-3].*
X11: more terminal-like default resources
win32gui: save and load map colors from registry


NetHack Community Patches (or Variation) Included
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Malcolm Ryan's improved tin opener
Ray Chason's keyboard may stop responding after locking or unlocking a door
        when using altkeyhandler=nhraykey.dll
Ray Chason's fix: window interfaces that support transparency may give away
        unseen parts of the map
Ray Chason's xprname should honor iflags.menu_tab_sep
Ray Chason's punctuation for "That foo is really a mimic."
Ray Chason's proper background tiles for lava and water
Ray Chason's MS-DOS port restored to functionality with credit to Reddit user 
        b_helyer for the fix to sys/share/pcmain.c
Ray Chason's MSDOS port support for some VESA modes
Darshan Shaligram's pet ranged attack
Jason Dorje Short's key rebinding


Code Cleanup and Reorganization
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removed some unused variables and dead code
the level generator no longer uses the native pRNG