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+  o Major features (developer tools):
+    - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker tool
+      to keep track of the layering violations that we have not yet fixed.
+      We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's modularity.
+      Closes ticket 31176.