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@@ -126,8 +126,15 @@ backbuffer from the fb-aware page allocator (it can no longer land on
 the framebuffer — the heap free list spans the fb hole, so a 1.9 MB
 shadow could alias the display and turn every scroll into an MMIO→MMIO
 memcpy) and converts the scroll's shadow memmove to per-word stores as
-a belt-and-suspenders measure.  A future major GUI overhaul (graphics
-windows beyond the text surface) would be the `a` bump (1.0.0).
+a belt-and-suspenders measure; 0.5.5 makes every boot stage visible on
+real hardware (no serial console): `gop::boot_marker` prints the boot
+progress straight to the framebuffer (the last marker before a hang
+identifies the death site) and pre-shell panics now draw a white-on-red
+`*** PANIC ***` band instead of a silent blank screen, and the shadow
+fallback allocation is panic-proof (try_reserve; a heap OOM degrades
+to no-shadow mode instead of halting).  A future major GUI overhaul
+(graphics windows beyond the text surface) would be the `a` bump
+(1.0.0).
 
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