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@@ -45,12 +45,15 @@ future as a Python or Go translation seems possible, even probable.
 
 Bug fixes:
 
+* The caged bird used to be counted as two items in your inventory.
+
 * Reading the relocated Witt's End sign in the endgame didn't work right.
 
+* Oyster was readable after first gotten even when not carried.
+
 * Behavior when saying the giant's magic words outside his room wasn't
   quite correct - the game responded as though the player were in
-  the room ("...can't you read?"). The new message is "Well, that was
-  remarkably pointless."
+  the room ("...can't you read?"). The new message is "Nothing happens."
  
 * Attempting to extinguish an unlit urn caused it to lose its oil.
 
@@ -59,12 +62,21 @@ Bug fixes:
   bridge spans the fissure." (timeless present).
 
 * A few minor typos have been corrected: absence of capitalization on
-  "Swiss" and "Persian", inconsistent selling of "imbedded" vs. "embedded",
+  "Swiss" and "Persian", inconsistent spelling of "imbedded" vs. "embedded",
   "eying" for "eyeing". "thresholds" for "threshholds".
 
 * Under odd circumstances (dropping rug or vase outdoors) the game could
   say "floor" when it should say "ground" (or "dirt", or something).
 
+Bugs (accidental changes that don't seem worth the effort to fix):
+
+* Commands that are not moves (e.g. "look" and "inven") can be used
+  during fee fie fo foo without breaking recognition of the sequence.
+
+* Bird starts uncaged in the endgame.
+
+Enhancements:
+
 By default, advent issues "> " as a command prompt.  This feature
 became common in many variants after the original 350-point version,
 but was never backported into Crowther & Woods's main line before now.
@@ -85,7 +97,7 @@ but as a way for game logs to set the PRNG (pseudorandom-number generator) so
 that random events (dwarf & pirate appearances, the bird's magic word)
 will be reproducible.
 
-A "version" command has beem added. This has no effect on gameplay.
+A "version" command has been added. This has no effect on gameplay.
 The text displayed by the "news" command has been updated.
 
 A -l command-line option has been added. When this is given (with a
@@ -169,14 +181,18 @@ ways:
   arrays are a cell larger than they strictly need to be and cell 0 is
   unused.
 
-* The code is still mostly typeless, slinging around machine ints
-  like a FORTRAN or BCPL program.  Some (incomplete) effort has been made
-  to introduce semantic types.
-
 We have made exactly one minor architectural change.  In addition to the
 old code's per-object state-description messages, we now have a per-object
 message series for state *changes*.  This makes it possible to pull a fair
 amount of text out of the arbitrary-messages list and associate those
 messages with the objects that conceptually own them.
 
+== Development status ==
+
+We consider this project finished. All issues and TODOs have been
+cleared, behavior has been carefully checked against original ADVENT,
+no future demand for new features is expected, and the test suite has
+100% code coverage.  If the toolchain bit-rots out from under it,
+we will fix that.
+
 // end