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+- [merge] Improve help message and add standard command line options (#3408)
+- [otlLib] Pass ``ttFont`` to ``name.addName`` in ``buildStatTable`` (#3406)
+- [featureVars] Re-use ``FeatureVariationRecord``s when possible (#3413)
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 4.47.0 (released 2023-12-18)
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