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In notes.adoc, update the new-features list and credits.

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@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ the game; Jason signed on early in the process to help. The assistance
of Peje Nilsson in restructuring some particularly grotty gotos is of Peje Nilsson in restructuring some particularly grotty gotos is
gratefully acknowledged. Petr Voropaev contributed fuzz testing and gratefully acknowledged. Petr Voropaev contributed fuzz testing and
code cleanups. Aaron Traas did a lot of painstaking work to improve code cleanups. Aaron Traas did a lot of painstaking work to improve
test coverage, and factored out the last handful of gotos. test coverage, and factored out the last handful of gotos. Ryan
Sarson nudged us into fixing a longstannding minor bug in the
handling of incorrect magic-word sequebcesm,
== Nomenclature == == Nomenclature ==
@ -55,10 +57,10 @@ Bug fixes:
* Response to an attempt to unlock the oyster while carrying it was incorrect. * Response to an attempt to unlock the oyster while carrying it was incorrect.
* Behavior when saying the giant's magic words before having seen them wasn't * Behavior when saying the giant's magic words before having seen them
quite correct - the game responded as though the player had already wasn't quite correct - the game responded as though the player had
read them ("...can't you read?"). The new message is "Nothing happens." already read them ("...can't you read?"). The new message is "Well,
The -o option reverts this change. that was remarkably pointless!" The -o option reverts this change.
* Attempting to extinguish an unlit urn caused it to lose its oil. * Attempting to extinguish an unlit urn caused it to lose its oil.
@ -121,7 +123,10 @@ functions; without C's fread(3)/fwrite() and structs it was
necessarily pretty ugly by modern standards. Encryption and necessarily pretty ugly by modern standards. Encryption and
checksumming have been discarded - it's pointless to try checksumming have been discarded - it's pointless to try
tamper-proofing saves when everyone has the source code. However tamper-proofing saves when everyone has the source code. However
the game still integrity-checks savefiles on resume. the game still integrity-checks savefiles on resume, including an
abort if the endianness of the restoring machine does not match that of
the saving machine. There is a magic-cookie header on the saves so
in theory they could be identified by programs like file(1).
Save and resume filenames are stripped of leading and trailing Save and resume filenames are stripped of leading and trailing
whitespace before processing. whitespace before processing.