News Archive
05-Sep-2021
How to set up a local practice server on Debian, Raspberry Pi OS or Ubuntu:
https://github.com/quozl/netrek.
19-Jun-2020
Check out the new Netrek Client apps for iPhones and iPads from Darrell Root! Search for Netrek in the Apple App Store.
14-May-2009
The new "Netrek Game On!" app is up! Download this program for the Windows taskbar so you can hear an audio alert when a game has started
10-May-2009
The new Star Trek movie is out and we're seeing a bunch of new players from around the world.
05-Feb-2009
Netrek now has a Google mailing list,
http://groups.google.com/group/netrek-forever. Join up!
26-Jan-2009
The COW client is now available in the
Ubuntu Linux "Jaunty" release.
21-Jan-2009
The COW client is
now available in the
Debian Linux Sid package repositories.
14-May-2009
The new "Netrek Game On!" app is up! Download this program for the Windows taskbar so you can hear an audio alert when a game has started
10-May-2009
The new Star Trek movie is out and we're seeing a bunch of new players from around the world.
28-Jan-2009
Yoda has started a new mailing list on Google Groups. Check out
http://groups.google.com/group/netrek-forever?lnk=
15-Sep-2008
New release of the Linux COW client!
Version 3.2.7 available as source code for your downloading pleasure.
21-Jul-2008
New release of the Windows client,
Netrek XP 2009 1.0!
15-Jul-2008
New release of the Linux client, netrek-client-cow 3.2.4. Available for download from
http://quozl.linux.netrek.au/netrek.
30-Jun-2008
Voting is closed for Community Choice Awards.
12-Jun-2008
Please
vote for Netrek for "Best Project for Gamers" in the Sourceforge.Net Community Choice Awards.
04-Jun-2008
Developer Wiki was broken for a few days. Fixed now.
05-Feb-2008
Netrek news on
Slashdot.org
29-Oct-2007
Dante's DF Guide updated
19-Jul-2007
New release of the windows client, Netrek XP 2006 1.3!
11-Jul-2007
New release of MacTrek, version 1.4.0!
06-Jul-2007
New release of MacTrek, version 1.3.0!
04-May-2007
New release of MacTrek, version 1.2.0!
05-Mar-2007
New release of the windows client, Netrek XP 2006 1.2!
23-Feb-2007
We're beginning to resurrect the website.
24-Jan-2007
Xyzzy's done the latest release (version RC6) of the
Linux Paradise client
08-Jan-2007
Those Euro maniacs have announced a
Gathering this summer in Austria
27-Dec-2006
Vanilla Server version 2.12.0 released
07-Jan-2005
Added a local copy of
Dantes Dogfight Guide to the website since the original went down.
03-Jan-2005
Version RC4 of Trents
Paradise 2000 client for Linux is available! Download it
here.
01-Jan-2005
Happy New Year!
02-Aug-2004
I got my act together and finally made sure this website is
Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!
01-Aug-2004
Added HTML compression, otherwise called gzip content encoding. This shaves another few Kb's off and speeds up the site.
11-Jul-2004
Version 4.4.0.3 of Stas'
Netrek XP Mod client for Windows is available! Download
here.
04-Jun-2004
Netrek XP is now listed in
Tucows. It got a
rating.
08-May-2004
Optimized all GIF and PNG images upto an
average of 46% lossless!! Thanks to
Absolute Gif Optimizer,
OptiPNG and
PNGout. Plus deleted some dead links.
04-May-2004
Removed old link to playnetrek.org and also mentioned
Dantes Dogfighting Guide in the beginner section.
25-Apr-2004
Added links to
Netrek in Australia,
Dantes Dogfighting Strategy and
Caradhras' Netrek page.
24-Apr-2004
Joe's playnetrek.org site now points to netrek.org.
10-Apr-2004
New website design goes live!
Feedback appreciated!
21-Mar-2004
There is a new build of the
COW client Version 3.01pl0 for Linux glibc2.3.x available!
10-Mar-2004
Version 4.4.0.2 of Stas'
Netrek XP Mod client for Windows is available! Download
here or use the
mirror. Further removed some dead links.
05-Feb-2004
Added the
Netrek Web Forum to the Info section
01-Feb-2004
Updated the
Metaserver HTML output url to point to Sven's forwarding proxy
01-Feb-2004
Added
Charlie's Beginner's Guide to Dogfighting
23-Jan-2004
Updated and weeded out
dead links (over 200 so far!)
19-Jan-2004
New homepage maintainer: Erik Hietbrink.
16-Dec-2001
Fixed some broken links.
10-Feb-2001
COW 3.00pl3 i386/NetBSD binary available
here.
10-Feb-2001
Paradise 2000 beta7 now available. Get it
here.
13-Nov-2000
ftp.netrek.org is back up.
26-Oct-2000
Check out Joe's Netrek sticker. Want one? Only 40 left as of today.
Get one now!
25-Oct-2000
Thanks to Karthik at Global NAPs, the Netrek Home Page has a new, dedicated web server. Downloads should be much faster now. It may take a few days for the DNS changes for www.netrek.org to propage.
