News

This page details the news articles that have been released over time on the Crawl development blog, which can be found here: [1]

2025

• April 30th: 0.33 Tournament Page
• April 18th: Trunk Update and 0.33 Tournament Announcement

2024

• September 25th: 0.32 Tournament Results
• August 30th: 0.32 "Gods and Makers"
• August 19th: 0.32 Release and Tournament
• July 20th: New Crawl Servers and a Possible Server Retirement
• April 7th: CDI is Now Official and CKO is Going Offline
• February 12th: 0.31 Tournament Results
• January 19th: 0.31 "The Alchemy of Forms"
• January 17th: 0.31 Tournament Page

2023

• December 11th: Trunk Updates 11 December 2023 and Tournament Announcement
• May 22nd: 0.30 Tournament Results
• May 5th: 0.30 "The Reavers Return"
• April 1st: Trunk Updates 1 April 2023 and Tournament Announcement
• January 11th: Trunk Updates 11 Jan 2023

2022

• August 25th: 0.29 "Shooting Stars"
• August 14th: Trunk Updates 14 August 2022
• July 18th: Trunk Updates 18 July 2022
• June 19th: Trunk Updates 19 June 2022
• March 6th: Trunk Updates 6 March 2022
• Feburary 21st: 0.28 Tournament Results
• Feburary 4th: 0.28 “The Rise and Fall of Ignis Zotdust and the Spiders from Hell”
• Feburary 1st: 0.28 Tournament Page and Schedule
• January 18th: Trunk Updates 17 January 2022 and Tournament Announcement

2021

• December 28th: Trunk Updates 28 December 2021
• December 18th: Trunk Updates 18 December 2021
• December 6th: Trunk Updates 6 December 2021
• September 23rd: Trunk Updates 23 September 2021
• August 21st: 0.27.1 Bugfix Release
• August 20th: 0.27 Tournament Results
• July 30th: 0.27 “The Cursed Flame”
• July 24th, 2021: July 24 Trunk Update Post and 0.27 Tournament Page
• July 1st, 2021: Trunk Updates 1 July 2021 and Tournament Date Set
• June 25th, 2021: Trunk Updates 25 June 2021
• June 15th, 2021: IRC presence moved to libera.chat
• April 19th, 2021: Trunk Updates 19 April 2021
• April 2nd, 2021: Trunk Updates 2 April 2021
• March 23rd, 2021: Trunk Updates 23 March 2021
• March 2nd, 2021: Trunk Updates 2 March 2021
• February 16th, 2021: Trunk Updates 16 February 2021
• January 8th, 2021 0.26 “Roll Around the Clock”
• January 5th, 2021 0.26 Tournament Page

2020

• December 30th, 2020 Dec 30 Trunk Update and 0.26 Tournament and Release Dates
• December 13th, 2020 Trunk Updates 13 December 2020
• November 7th, 2020 Trunk Updates 7 November 2020
• August 21th, 2020 Trunk Updates 21 August 2020
• August 13th, 2020 Trunk Updates 13 August 2020
• August 5th, 2020 Trunk Updates 5 August 2020
• July 29th, 2020 Trunk Updates 29 July 2020
• July 20th, 2020 Trunk Updates 20 July 2020
• July 17th, 2020 0.25.1 bugfix release
• July 14th, 2020 Trunk Updates 13 July 2020
• July 4th, 2020 0.25 Tournament Results
• June 12th, 2020 0.25 “Magic Surges Out from Thin Air”
• June 4th, 2020 0.25 Tournament Delayed But Tournament Page Now Available
• May 28th, 2020 Last 0.25 Updates and Release/Tournament Date
• May 16th, 2020 Trunk Updates 15 May 2020 and tentative 0.25 release tournament info
• May 1st, 2020 Trunk Updates 1 May 2020
• April 1st, 2020 Trunk Updates – 31 March 2020
• February 22nd, 2020 Trunk Updates – 21 February 2020
• January 26th, 2020 Community Competitions
• January 7th, 2020 Trunk Updates 6 January 2020

2019

• December 10th, 2019 Trunk Updates 10 December 2019 Part II: Magic Changes
• December 10th, 2019 Trunk Updates 10 December 2019 Part I
• December 2nd, 2019 Trunk Updates 1 December 2019
• November 19th, 2019 0.24 Tournament Results
• October 25th, 2019 0.24 “Plants vs. Vampires”
• October 18th, 2019 0.24 Release and tournament dates and CXC server info
• March 31st, 2019 0.23.2 and 0.22.2 bugfix releases
• February 8th, 2019 Crawl 0.23 "Nemelex Needs Traps Badly!"
• February 1st, 2019 0.23 Release and Tournament Info
• January 30th, 2019 Trunk Updates and 0.23 Release and Tournament Info
• January 24th, 2019 23 Bugs to fix before 0.23
• January 14th, 2019 Trunk Updates 14 January 2019

2018

• December 31st, 2018 Trunk Updates 31 December 2018
• December 9th, 2018 Trunk Updates 9 December 2018
• November 28th, 2018 New crawl server CKO and server CJR taken offline
• November 25th, 2018 Trunk Updates 25 November 2018
• September 18th, 2018 0.22.1 and 0.21.2 bug fix releases
• August 30th, 2018 0.22 Summer Tournament Results
• August 10th, 2018 Crawl 0.22 “Ghost in a Cell”
• July 14th, 2018 0.22 Release and Tournament Info
• July 8th, 2018 Trunk Updates and 0.22 Release and Tournament Info
• February 3rd, 2018 0.21.1 Bugfix Release
• January 25th, 2018 0.21 Tournament Results
• January 6th, 2018 Crawl 0.21: "Gnoll Country for Old Jian"

2017

• November 25th, 2017 0.21 Release Info
• May 25th, 2017 Crawl 0.20: “Scarf Our Wanderful Fried Frogs”
• May 23rd, 2017 0.20 Tournament Page is Online
• May 16th, 2017 Upcoming 0.20 Release and Tournament
• April 25th, 2017 Trunk Updates, 24 April 2017
• March 24th, 2017 Making DCSS with 253 cooks and no head chef
• March 1st, 2017 0.19.5 Bugfix Release
• February 8th, 2017 Trunk 0.20 updates, 8 February 2017
• January 31st, 2017 0.19.4 Bugfix Release
• January 14th, 2017 Trunk 0.20 updates, 14 January 2017

2016

• December 24th, 2016 Trunk 0.20 updates, 23 December 2016
• November 30th, 2016 Trunk 0.20 updates, 30 November 2016
• November 24th, 2016 0.19.1 Bugfix Release
• November 1st, 2016 Released: Crawl 0.19 “Dancing Through Memory”
• October 27th, 2016 Upcoming 0.19 Release and Tournament
• October 17th, 2016 Trunk 0.19 Updates
• September 28th, 2016 New Online Score Record
• September 25th, 2016 Trunk 0.19 Updates
• September 23rd, 2016 XL 9 win
• September 2nd, 2016 Trunk 0.19 Updates
• August 17th, 2016 Trunk 0.19 Updates
• July 12th, 2016 Trunk 0.19 Updates
• June 28th, 2016 Trunk 0.19 Updates
• June 13th, 2016 Trunk 0.19 Updates
• June 3rd, 2016 0.18 Tournament Results
• May 25, 2016 Trunk 0.19 Updates
• May 6th, 2016 New Server CJR is Online and CAO Updated for 0.18 Tournament
• May 5th, 2016 Crawl 0.18: “Pakellas's Packrats”
• April 20th, 2016 Trunk 0.18 updates
• March 23rd, 2016 Trunk 0.18 updates
• March 6th, 2016 Trunk 0.18 updates
• February 24th, 2016 A Brief History Of Buffness
• February 18th, 2016 Trunk 0.18 updates
• January 23rd, 2016 Trunk 0.18 updates

2015

• December 13th, 2015 Trunk 0.18 updates
• December 10th, 2015 Crawl 0.17.1: Bugfix Release
• November 24th, 2015 0.17 Tournament Results
• November 6th, 2015 Crawl 0.17: “Squaring the Circle”
• August 12th, 2015 Crawl 0.16.2: Bugfix release
• March 30th, 2015 0.16 Tournament Results
• March 24th, 2015 Crawl 0.16.1: Bugfix release
• March 13th, 2015 Crawl 0.16: “The Great Annihilating Truth”
• March 7th, 2015 - Crawl 0.16 beta
• March 7th, 2015 - 0.16 tournament
• March 7th, 2015 - Community contributions

2014

• October 19, 2014 - 0.15.2 bugfix release
• September 16, 2014 - 0.15 Tournament Results
• September 16, 2014 - 0.15.1 bugfix release
• August 28, 2014 - Crawl 0.15: “Storm Over Zot”
• August 23, 2014 - 0.15 Tournament
• April 28, 2014 - 0.14.1 bugfix release
• April 28, 2014 - 0.14 Tournament Results
• April 16, 2014 - CSZO broken
• April 9, 2014 - Crawl 0.14: “The Shadowy Depths of Madness”
• April 4, 2014 - 0.13.2 Bugfix Released
• April 4, 2014 - 0.14 Tournament
• April 1, 2014 - A sneak peek at future development
• March 31, 2014 - Crawl Art exhibition now open!
• March 29, 2014 - Crawl 0.14 beta and tournament schedule
• February 25, 2014 - Downtime: CDO (Website, Bug Tracker, Development Wiki, Forum)
• February 10, 2014 - New USA webtiles/ssh server: crawl.beRotato.org

2013

• 30th October 2013 - 0.13 Tournament Results
• 11th October 2013 - Crawl 0.13 "Pan-Galactic Gargoyle Blasters"
• 8th October 2013 - 0.13 Tournament Reminder
• 29th September - DCSS 0.13 beta (and Tournament schedule)
• 21st June 2013 - Even more euroservers!
• 9th June 2013 - New European webtiles server: crawl.lantea.net
• 27th May 2013 - 0.12 Tournament Results
• 2nd May 2013 - Crawl 0.12: "High Vaultage"
• 29th April 2013 - 0.12 Tournament details released! (May 11-26)
• 9th April 2013 - CDO is retiring WebTiles
• 9th March 2013 - dpeg and rax on Roguelike Radio

2012

• 5th November 2012 - 0.11 Tournament Results! (The wiki team came in a respectable fourth place, woo!)
• 10th October 2012 - 0.11 Tournament
• 2nd October 2012 - Crawl 0.11: "Arachnophobia"
• 21st August 2012 - New US server: crawl.s-z.org
• 13th August 2012 - CAO Downtime
• 12th April 2012 - 0.10.2 Maintenance Update
• 15th March 2012 - 0.10 Tournament Results!
• 23rd February 2012 - Stone Soup Survey
• 16th February 2012 - Crawl 0.10: “Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus”
• 11th February 2012 - 0.9.2 bugfix release and 0.10 tournament!

2011

• 4th September 2011 - 0.9.1 bugfix release.
• 1st September 2011 - OSX Builds back on Track!
• 1st September 2011 - Summary of the August 2011 tournament.
• 19th August 2011 - WebTiles has been updated to Crawl v0.9.
• 15th August 2011 - Crawl 0.9: Victory Valedictory has been released! Big skill training changes.
• 13th August 2011 - The official tournament has started! It ends on August 29, 2011 at midnight UTC. Check this page for more information.
• 13th May 2011 - The Tiles version of Dungeon Crawl can now be played in your Internet browser! See Web Tiles.
• 12th May 2011 - An (un)official Crawl 0.8 Tournament starts on May 14th to celebrate the release of v0.8! Plays until May 30, 2011 at midnight UTC.
• 27th April 2011 - Dungeon Crawl 0.8 has been released, with felids!

2010

• 16th December 2010 - The Dungeon Crawl forum is now hosted on CDO.
• 24th November 2010 - New Dungeon Crawl forum!
• 24th July 2010 - The tournament is a week away!
• 24th July 2010 - Stone Soup 0.7.0 is finished, with elephants!
• 21st July 2010 - A third release candidate for 0.7 is out.
• 18th July 2010 - A second release candidate for version 0.7 is out, squashing many bugs.
• 15th July 2010 - 0.7's first Release Candidate is here!
• 13th June 2010 - Stone Soup 0.6.1 was released.
• 9th June 2010 - NetTiles (Windows) - Play online with the tiles interface! Credit goes to Gorilla Codpiece for the link.
• 7th May 2010 - Luca Barbieri has announced NetTiles, a branch of 0.6 tiles that allows for play on CAO. Check out this thread on crawl-ref-discuss.
• 27th March 2010 - Stone Soup 0.6.0 has been released!
• 17th March 2010 - The second release candidate of 0.6 is out. Windows version can be downloaded here and the Mac tiles version can be downloaded here.
• 15th March 2010 - 0.6's release was delayed due to various bugs that needed to be fixed.
• 3rd March 2010 - Dungeon Sprint, a single, fixed level of Dungeon Crawl that is similar to the Tomb of Horrors, is available to play online at crawl.develz.org!
• 1st March 2010 - The released date of 0.6 has been changed to March 15th.
• 24th February 2010 - The 0.6 release is close! The pre-release of 0.6 can be downloaded here.
• 3rd February 2010 - 0.6's release date is March 1st! We are keeping track of the changes and you can read them here!
• 15th January 2010 - Henzell & Gretell can now be accessed here
• 10th January 2010 - Playtesting: New changes
• 1st January 2010 - Happy New Year! A new version of the trunk build is out.

2009

• 25th November 2009 - Playtesting – How you can help!
• 15th October 2009 - Crawl switched to git
• 13th October 2009 - CAO upgraded to 0.5.2
• 9th October 2009 - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.5.2 is released!
• 19th September 2009 - The poll results are now available.
• 18th September 2009 - Happy Birthday, Stone Soup!
• 2nd September 2009 - The tournament is over! Read the detailed writeup here.
• 21th August 2009 - The devteam would love it if you emailed them answers to this poll.
• 30th July 2009 - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.5.1 released!
• 28th July 2009 - CAO '09 tournament is almost upon us! Read about the awards you can win behind this link.
• 16th June 2009 - You can now follow CAO as @crawlakrasiac on Twitter, if you are so inclined.
• 10th April 2009 - 0.1 version of Zot Defense now playable.
• 12th June 2009 - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.5 released!

2008

• 15th July 2008 - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.4 released!
• 2nd April 2008 - Windows binaries of latest trunk available for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup v0.4.

2007

• 25th September 2007 - New crawling Server up and running!