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+**htop** had grown stale, with unapplied patches accumulating over a span of a couple years.
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+So, in the summer of 2020, a group calling itself [htop-dev][10] [forked it, applied patches, and announced their version.][20]
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+[10]: https://htop.dev
+[20]: https://groups.io/g/htop/topic/htop_3_0_0_released/76441967
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