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Binaries removed (licence cleanup, see #6741); tags and source remain.
New
- Far terrain: no faces for caves nothing can see into (-36% far quads) (#993)
- Far terrain: bounded render-thread work while tiles generate (#994)
- Far terrain: capped on integrated GPUs, held back on 4-thread machines (#995)
Fixed
- Far terrain: no dark band at the full-detail edge, no black cliffs (#992)
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