[announce] Sangband version 1.0.0 Final is out.

[Leon Marrick]

(I'm not quite sure where I should put a release announcement - I'll ask Pav)


Announcement:

Skills-Angband (Sangband) 1.0.0 Final is now available. This latest version is stable and suitable for porting; the next major release is not planned for for some months.

Sangband is currently available for Linux/UNIX, Windows, and IBM. It is also available for Macintosh, but may not be stable on all machines (work continues on this). Other ports, including to hand-held and portable devices, are planned soon.


("what is Sangband" section snipped; see website for this info)


Website: sangband.runegold.org

Changelog (most recent versions):
sangband.runegold.org/files/archive/changes-099-21 to 100.txt

Download page: sangband.runegold.org/downloads.htm

Support thread: angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=24


Thanks and appreciation:

If it were not for Christer Nyfält's (CJNyfalt) hard work and countless patches, Sangband would 1) be effectively a single-platform game, and 2) not be /nearly/ as clean, polished, stable, reliable, or easy to use correctly. If the game works on your Linux system, it is because he made it work.

Sangband 1.0.0 includes almost all the bugfixes and some of the improvements found in Joshua Middendorf's enhanced Beta 21, plus a number of other Neat Changes suggested or provided directly by him.

Mikko Lehtinen was the most valuable of bug-reporters and offered solutions that just make sense, especially to newbies. He is responsible for the printable list of commonly-used commands, a valuable guide for the perplexed.

Thanks also goes to Alex Power, J.A. Aczel, Dave, Fuma, David Gervais, and Andrew Sidwell.

Without each and every one of these folks, Sangband would be immeasurably the poorer.