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 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/). For the purposes of versioning, we consider the "public API" to refer to the configuration files, CLI interface and database format.
 
+*NOTE: Things are probably very broken right now. The `THEATER` command does not work, and I'm currently most of the way through rearchitecting the command handling. It should be finished apart from the `THEATER` command, but things are probably still broken.*
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 # Features
 
 * UTF-8 nick and channel names