[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 7, 2026
Inside this weekâs LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: LLMs and security; restartable sequences and TCMalloc; Fedora and GNOME bug reports; Prolly trees; Arm on s390.
Briefs: NHS open source; Alpine outage; GCC 16.1; Incus 7.0 LTS; NetHack 5.0.0; PHP license; Quotes; âŚ
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. â Read more
NetHack 5.0.0 released
Version 5.0.0
of the NetHack
dungeon-exploration game, a distant relative of Rogue and
Hack, has been released. NetHackâs code is now compliant with the
C99 standard, and the release includes more than 3,100
bug fixes and changes, detailed in doc/fixes5-0-0.txt
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NetHack 5.0 Released
âSo yesterday the Devteam (it is always the Devteam) released version 5.0 of legendary and venerable rogueike compuer game NetHack,â writes the Rogue-like games column @Play. âIt is 39 years oldâŚâ
MilenCent (Slashdot reader #219,397) writes: In addition to play changes itâs left for players to discover, this version updates the code to compile with C99, makes it much easier to cross compile the code for other systems than the one ⌠â Read more
Nethack und Frotz installiert
https://nethack.glitch.me/?retro=true Play NetHack at the office ? :P
@durcheinandr@durcheinandr.de At least you were kill by a gnome and havenât starved to death. #nethack