Not sure, but we may be talking about different programs. BSDgames' hack doesn't seem to have a version number that I can find. There's nothing in the changelog, and the command doesn't have anything like a -v/--version command line switch
In fact, the closest to any kind of versioning that I can find are dates in the year 1985, both in the man page as well as in the strings in the executable itself.
The bsdgames package itself has a version number, but that doesn't strictly apply to the games themselves. (Especially since that's 2.17-35 for me, which is nothing like the numbers you gave.)
The program shouldn't be any more than internal logic and terminal calls anyway, so I can't imagine it would be difficult to patch, so either we are talking about different programs, or it's not considered important enough to repair.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 15 hours ago
Pretty sure that’s for NetHack, not Hack.