[ANN] UnNetHack 5.2.0 released

[Patric Mueller]

Announcing the release of UnNetHack 5.2.0.

Source code and Windows TTY and GUI executables can be downloaded here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/unnethack/files/unnethack/5.2.0/

Homebrew for OSX has also already been updated.

This is a release that brings the released version up to speed with the
version that is already deployed at public servers. It is not bones and
saves compatible with the previously released version 5.1.0.

The (mostly) complete ChangeLog is in the download packages or can be
read online at
https://github.com/UnNetHack/UnNetHack/blob/5.2.x/ChangeLog


Besides lots of bugfixes, some of the more notable changes include:

Reproducible dungeon layout. Set OPTIONS=seed:number to get the same
dungeon layout for new games. The seed number is noted in the dumplog.

item changes:

  * Decreased weight of all mithril armor, especially ones of elven make
  * Wand wresting happens always when an empty wand is zapped with a
    chance depending on BUC state if an effect is produced
  * Putting blessed and uncursed scrolls of charging into a bag of
    tricks charges it
  * Picking up scrolls of scare monsters change BUC from blessed to
    uncursed to cursed

user interface improvements:

  * Automatically identify scrolls of scare monster during pickup when
    turning to dust or changing known BUC state
  * Don't autopickup unpaid items
  * Change default of shopkeeper sell prompt to 'n'
  * Added naming last broken object to #name menu
  * Added stone, strangled, levitation, flying, and riding indicators to
    the status line
  * Status indicators on third status line if the terminal is high
    enough (example with every indicator turned on https://i.imgur.com/BRpRljp.png)
  * Pressing > or < autotravels to the stairs if not already on the
    right kind of stairs
  * customizable colors:
    - Dark gray improved on terminals supporting 256 colors
    - Configurable system colors using RGB values (on terminals
      supporting 256 colors or 24 bit color)
      For example, put "COLOR=light blue:5f00ff" into your config file
    - New extended command in tty: show_colors (shows in-game color
      names, some debugging info and all possible color combinations
      https://i.imgur.com/OKyJL9J.png)

Happy Hacking!

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