Stone Soup 0.4.0 (2008????)
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Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.
Breaks saves and bones compatibility.
Interface
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* Overhauled key settings of a number of commands. (See /docs/034_commands.txt.)
* Overhauled (f)iring interface, abolish (t)hrowing, output quiver in status.
* Allow selection of equipment slots from '%' overview screen.
* Improved butchering interface.
* Allow searching item/monster/spell descriptions ('?\' command).
* Added Ctrl-D as a synonym for '~' (defining macros).
* Added commands for repeating commands ('`' and '0').
* Stepping into lava/deep water/zot traps requires typing "yes".
* Ask for confirmation before stepping into dangerous traps.
* Allow autotravel through clouds your character is immune to.
* (W)ear and (P)ut on menus allow removal of equipped items.
* easy_butcher won't switch away from distortion weapons.
* Fixed weapon swap ignoring {!w}.
* Added inscriptions =p, !p for preventing autosaccing.
* Arriving via stairs calls autopickup and lists items on square.
* Output item slots for rotting meat message.
* Evaporate can now be cancelled during potion/direction choice.
* greedy_explore now defaults to true.
Gods
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* Overhauled the good gods: Zin/TSO completely new, Elyvilon more interesting.
* Improved Beogh and Nemelex.
* Vehumet isn't considered evil anymore.
* Removed option to stop prayer.
* Upon failed sacrifice hint on accepted item types.
* Divine summons will leave on penance, or turn hostile on abandonment.
Characters
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* Added Vampire species.
* Removed Glamour.
* New order of species and classes on the character selection screen.
* Red/White Draconians gain heat/cold resistance at xl 14 (rather than 18).
* Removed forgetfulnes; introduce fur, shouting, +mp/-mp mutations.
* Added +1 damage bonus for orcs and dwarves throwing racial gear.
* Fixed undead being unable to smite.
* Necromutation now gives torment resistance again.
* When transforming only remove armour you can't wear when transformed.
Items
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* Removed weapons of disruption, improved holy wrath.
* New weapon brand: dragon slaying, limited to Polearms.
* Disable random generation of weapons of orc slaying (allowed in randarts).
* Allow random generation of throwing nets.
* Make distortion only take effect on unwielding.
* New scrolls: Holy Word, Fog.
* Removed scrolls of forgetfulness.
* Scrolls of recharging and enchant armour now prompt for an item.
* Potions of restore ability also cancel breath delay.
* Staves and rods of the same type can now be recognized.
* Manuals are now visibly different from spell books.
* Improved artefact autoinscriptions.
* Several new pre-defined artefacts.
* Warn before putting on items of potentially fatal stat drain.
* Added message for returning weapons NOT returning.
* Equipped randarts can now actually cause berserk.
* Thrown potions of poison won't poison monsters anymore.
* Limit racial properties applying to only some fitting item types.
* Prompt when attempting to sacrifice important items.
Monsters
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* New glyphs and colours for many monsters. (See /docs/034_monster_glyphs.txt.)
* Ghosts get freezing cloud.
* Draconian ghosts of xl >= 7 get the shadow dragon breath attack.
* Angels and Daevas may appear randomly in the Abyss.
* Holy monsters may turn neutral if the player follows a good god.
* Beefed up demon lords.
* Began changing monster resists to have several levels, like the player's.
* Removed electricity resistance from several monsters.
* Daevas now resist negative energy.
* Fixed Oklob plants being confuseable.
* Lee's Rapid Deconstruction now works against skeletal dragons.
* Changed evil/holiness/intelligence flags for a number of monsters.
* Improved trap handling for intelligent monsters.
* Fixed friendlies accidentally shooting the player.
* Monsters won't enter miasma if it harms them.
* Implemented Dispel Undead for monsters.
* Monsters may use wands of disintegration and polymorph other (mutates).
* Give a message for kills out of LOS.
* No experience for killing summoned monsters.
* Monster blink is now restricted to their LOS.
* Made undetected mimic description match that of items.
* Introduced fish zombies (vault defined only).
* Fixed several spell/invocation attacks not waking monsters.
* Improved monster shields.
* More refined monster speech. (See /docs/monster_speech.txt.)
Levels
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* Several new vaults.
* Treat adjacent doors as one (large) gate, opening/closing together.
* Removed amnesia traps.
* Introduced shafts.
* Added blood spattering.
* Slime Pits are now on Lair:8-10.
Tiles
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* Merged Tiles into Crawl code. 
* Save files between tile and non-tile games are compatible.
* Added lots of new tiles, and corrected misdisplayed ones.
* Tutorial improvement for tiles.
* Improved mouse-click inventory/dungeon interaction.
* Show travel exclusion in tile map and mini-map.
* Added MP colour bar.
* Fixed ghosts changing icons between saves.
* Fixed Detect creatures revealing exact monster type.
* Mimics posing as autopickable items now get marked as such.
* Clicking on items now respects warning inscriptions.
* Added item brand for plants.
* Added '0' significator for empty wands.
* General improvement.
Miscellaneous
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* New scoring system.
* Train stealth by sneaking around sleeping monsters.
* Train T&D by setting off traps.
* Distortion effect now cancels butchering.
* Better feedback on Detect Traps.
* Identify post-mortem inventory in morgue.txt.
* Dump command also dumps level map.
* init.txt/crawlrc allow loading of external options/macro files.
* Overhaul of ghost structure.
* Overhauled and improved the documentation.
* Outsourced names for random artefacts.
* General code clean-up.
* Lots of additional bugs squashed.
Stone Soup 0.3.4 (20080129)
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* "Tele" status is shown when the player is about to teleport.
* Weapons of reaching cost no magic or hunger to use, do not train
  Evocations, and do not hit intervening creatures when the reach
  fails.
* Autopickup will attempt to pick up every item in the stack even if
  previous items cannot be picked up.
* Fired missile auto-id also identifies previously fired missiles on
  the floor.
* Escape hatches can be safely used even when confused or overburdened.
* Removed score bonus for escaping the dungeon without the Orb.
* Poison ammunition no longer works on sling bullets and throwing nets.
* Plants on stairs get branded.
* Drac and Ogre-Mage wanderers get shields instead of bucklers (which
  they can't wear).
* Weapon swap (') will also swap to miscellaneous items.
* (f)ire will ignore wielded items, fire_items_start defaults to 'a' again.
* Passwall now issues a warning when attempting to phase through rock + stone.
* Weakened chain paralysis effects from the monster Paralyse spell and
  giant eyeballs.
* Fixed poison-vulnerable monsters resisting curare.
* Fixed wands of draining not auto-identifying.
* Fixed necromutation not granting torment immunity.
* Fixed macros not being saved correctly if the key sequences include
  ASCII NUL.
* Fixed buggy labyrinth maps.
* Fixed bad entry levels.
* Fixed crossbow bolts not being randomly generated.
* Fixed messages for species unable to wear helmets and boots because
  of body shape.
* Fixed detect items not working if the level is magic-mapped.
* Fixed display glitches when using IBM graphics on Unix.
* Fixed monsters wielding angering randarts repeatedly going berserk.
* Fixed strawberry fields always appearing on Lair:3.
* Fixed some acquirement bugs.
* Report error messages after cleaning up curses when savefile is invalid.
* Fixed starting gear choices and kit for fighters.
* Fixed dolinks.sh script for builds on Unix.
* Fixed monster self-teleport taking 10x as long as intended.
* Fixed ice statue description.
* Fixed Crawl being unable to create directories on DOS.
Stone Soup 0.3.3 (20071202)
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* Fixed crash when draconian callers try to summon drakes.
* Fixed crash when shadow creatures is cast in a labyrinth.
* Fixed crash when monster blinks onto trap and is killed by the trap.
* Fixed vampires boosting the player's maxhp.
* Fixed bad monster selection when shadow creatures is cast post-orb-pickup.
* Fixed buggy Xom mutations.
* Fixed nets not trapping monsters correctly.
* Fixed monsters being able to get past plants on level load.
* Fixed out-of-sight monsters raising dead in the player's line-of-sight.
* Fixed brand colours flooding screen in DOS.
* Returning weapons auto-id on use by monsters.
* Autobutcher respects !w inscriptions.
* Horns mutation changes helmet slot description to "restricted".
* Reintroduced Beogh penance for destroying orcish idols.
* Tutorial fixes.
* Errors in .crawlrc are reported at startup.
Stone Soup 0.3.2 (20071110)
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* Fixed tiles crash when visiting shops in the stash-tracker's ^F listings.
* Reduced frequency of the Damnation card in common decks.
* Removed Batform from the Metamorphosis card.
* Fixed two broken entry vaults.
* Nets are easier to escape from / destroy, and more effective when used by
  the player.
* Beogh converts are better behaved, with less message spam.
* Fixed spell power display for clarity.
Stone Soup 0.3.1 (20071103)
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* Fixed crash when targeting with show_beam = yes.
* Fixed Orb of Zot being generated in random vault.
* Fixed buggy handling of some mutations.
* Fixed penance message sequence.
* Fixed turn-loss when canceling prayer request.
* Fixed -morgue option not creating the morgue directory.
Stone Soup 0.3.0 (20071031)
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Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.
Characters
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* Removed Hill Dwarf and Elf species.
* Demigods lose fast metabolism, get better stat gain.
* Kenku can kick with their taloned feet, and can fly faster than
  normal when lightly burdened.
* Kenku and merfolk get an evasion bonus when in their element.
* Demonspawn get a bonus with demonic weapons.
Gods
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* New god: Beogh, god of Orcs.
* Changed gods: Nemelex, Xom, Lugonu, Trog, Elyvilon, Okawaru.
* No need to pray to dedicate kills.
* Nemelexites no longer need a portable altar in order to sacrifice
  objects.
* Nemelexites are granted various deck manipulation abilites as they
  gain piety.
* [1761974] Trog gets a Burn Books ability.
* [1754125] Trog's Hand and Brothers in Arms replace Might and Haste.
* Elyvilon: Destroy Weapon ability replaces weapon sacrifices.
* Okawaru loses Minor Healing.
* Gods won't accept sacrifices of rotten corpses.
* Good gods no longer punish for unintended draining.
* Different messages now indicate piety gain for offered items.
Items
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* New missiles: javelins, sling bullets and throwing nets.
* Throwing weapons may be generated with the "returning" brand.
* [1756363] New potion: potion of resistance.
* [1744612] Introduced weapons of returning.
* [1789869] Items which the player sees a monster use become
  identified if they have an obvious effect.
* Artefact jewellery doesn't autoid anymore, instead "obvious" changes
  and abilities give a message.
* [1768865] Added inscription prompt when viewing items.
* Viewing via inventory listing won't leave the inventory.
* [1735752] Autoinscribe wands with zap count.
* Added autoinscriptions for items used by monsters.
* Warning inscriptions now actually work for all advertised commands
  ([1795568] !r now prevents scrolls from being read.)
* [1793698] In the item selection menu, pressing "." will toggle the
  selection of the item after the previously selected item.
* [1783003] More menu sorting methods, and fixed jewellery sorting bug.
* Book shops are less likely to stock duplicate copies.
* [1746014] Added command to cycle through ammunition when 'f'iring.
Monsters
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* Abominations created by Twisted Resurrection now count as undead.
* Increased spawning rate after picking up the Orb.
* Berserked monsters attack nearby enemies and ignore ally commands.
* Monsters confused by you that kill themselves or others now give xp.
* [1779770] Monsters taking stairs are created according to stair
  destination.
* Monster descriptions are shorter when looking at them with 'x' and
  targeting.
* Unflasked efreets are permanent
* Mummy priests and greater mummies now have high intelligence.
Levels
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* Added portal vaults, specifically bazaars.
* Labyrinths look much different now.
* Changed rock stairs to escape hatches.
* New trap type: net trap.
* Added several new vault maps.
* Monster generation rate in the Vestibule drops with time spent in
  the Vestibule.
* Fixed sealed rooms being generated in the Vaults.
  
Interface
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* [1772497] runrest_ignore_monster can be used to ignore distant mosters
  when running, resting or exploring.
* Filter talk and sound channels from interrupting resting
* Filter information from examining your surroundings from message history
* Three new informational-only hunger states: near starving, very hungry
  and very full.
* Added pickup.lua for smarter autopickup
* Added trap_item_brand for traps hidden by items
* Added visible beam path for targetting
* Added warning when trying to fight wielding a non-weapon
* Interlevel travel also allows travelling to entrances of branches
* Polearms can be used to attack monsters submerged in shallow water using
  Ctrl+direction when adjacent.
* Added support for Unicode glyphs in Unix.
* Large viewport support for terminals larger than 80x24 if the
  view_max_width and view_max_height options are set.
* Quit prompt needs "Yes" to confirm.
Miscellaneous
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* Crawl needs Lua - Lua 5.1 sources are included with the Crawl sources.
* Monster, spell and feature descriptions and monster dialogue are now
  loaded from text files.
* [1777426] Explosions can no longer pass through walls.
* Invisibility is more useful.
* User Lua scripts now have limits on CPU usage and memory use and are safer
  to use on public servers.
* Fixed DOS glitches.
* Game time reported by Crawl clamps time-per-move at 5 minutes.
* More fixes for Crawl to play well with dgamelaunch.

* New god.

* New god: Lugonu, god of the Void.