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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-         NetHack 5.0.0 work-in-progress -- General information
+         NetHack 5.0.0 -- General information
 
 NetHack 5.0 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack,
 which is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Along with the game improvements and bug fixes, NetHack 5.0 strives to make
 some general architectural improvements to the game or to its building
 process. Among them, 5.0 has:
 
+ *  The source code is standard C99.
+
  *  removes barriers to building NetHack on one platform and operating system,
     for later execution on another (possibly quite different) platform and/or
     operating system. That capability is generally known as "cross-compiling."