An alleged Valve employee seeking to air grievances with his employer and one specific employee has taken to an anonymous blog titled " The Truth About IceFrog ." In it, the person -- supposedly working on "an unrelated project" from "IceFrog" -- describes not just a poor working environment with the Defense of the Ancients co-developer (whose real name is said to be Abdul Ismail), but also details "something fishy" regarding his past.
GAMEPLAY - Added Rubick! - Bane: Fixed Fiend's Grip not ending if Kraken Shell dispels it. - Chaos Knight: Reality Rift now puts the Chaos Knight behind his target. - Clockerk: Fixed Hookshot stunning dead units. - Gyrocopter: Fixed Homing Missle not giving any bounty. - Invoker: Fixed Alacrity interaction with Magic Immunity - Kunkka: Fixed Ghost Ship allied debuff dealing all the damage immediately when then rum wears off, rather than over the following 8 seconds. - Mirana: Reduced size of Arrow 20%. - Outworld Destroyer: Aadded visual indicator for Astral Imprisonment Length. - Riki: Fixed sometimes not attacking his Blink Strike target immediately. - Spirit Breaker: Fixed a bug allowing charging Razor without moving. - Fixed Batrider and Outworld Destroyer having 1 too little armor. - Fixed Chaos Knight having 2 extra armor. - Fixed Lone Druid having 1.3 too little armor.
DotA 6.79 Beta - is a "public test version of 6.79" that has been officially released by Icefrog "to help increase bug testing coverage before the official version is published". Icefrog also said that "Certain bugs can be discovered in single player games while others will require full 5v5 games."