diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8c9e4e7..891a161 100644
--- a/README.md
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ works on its own, and on a [Runic Gateway](https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicG
 website authors its NPC profiles and events use its NPCs. The plan of record, stage by stage, is
 [`docs/runicnpc/PLAN.md`](https://gitea.whitlocktech.com/RunicGateway/docs/src/branch/main/runicnpc/PLAN.md).
 
-> **Status: stage 9, hardening for v1.0.0.** The NPC, its profiles, placements and routes; factions,
+> **Status: v1.0.0, stage 9's release.** The NPC, its profiles, placements and routes; factions,
 > fights, escorts and tethers; bosses and passive NPCs; loot. Admins use the `/rnpc` commands, other
 > plugins the API (version 6). On a Runic Gateway server RunicNPC is **required** (D310): the website
 > authors its profiles and faction table, edits its placements, and every NPC an event places is
@@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ and +5.2 ms fighting to the median frame. Load `tools/RunicNpcTest.cs` on a rig
 
 Work lands on `edge` and is cut over to `main`; every releasable push to `main` tags and publishes a
 release (`.gitea/workflows/release.yml`). The version comes from Conventional Commits since the
-last tag. `v1.0.0` is stage 9's release, the one `module-rust` then requires.
+last tag. `v1.0.0` is stage 9's release, the one `module-rust` requires; it was cut by a `feat!:`
+commit, because the stages before it were all `feat:` and would have made it `v0.2.0`.
 
 ## Contributing