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+- [subset] Keep advance widths when stripping ".notdef" glyph outline in
+  CID-keyed CFF fonts (#845)
 - [feaLib] Zero values now produce the same results as makeotf (#633, #848)
 - [feaLib] More compact encoding for “Contextual positioning with in-line
   single positioning rules” (#514)