0.8.0.9:0 — bundle Station Master v0.8.0.9

The bots that fill empty seats play far better: they plan each switching turn,
stop taking cards they cannot play, no longer run Second Sections by accident,
and lay track where it opens something up. The engine checks moves about three
times faster, with play proven identical. No rule changed, so games in progress
resume; the release notes say so in all five locales.

README's bundled-version line had stayed at 0.7.9.8 through the 0.8.0 series;
it now names 0.8.0.9.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017nnuCv8UodHucFfx3LWEoX
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Solitaire runs entirely in your own browser and needs nothing from the server, so it works here
exactly as it does on the public Station Master site.
**What changed in 0.8.0.9. Games already running on this server are not affected** — they resume
normally; no rule changed.
**The bots are much better opponents and seat-fillers.** A bot now plans its whole switching turn before
it moves, so it delivers cars to industries that can use them and brings expedited trains home. It stops
picking up face-up cards it cannot play, so it actually builds its district, and it lays track where it
opens up something to do, including run-arounds. It also no longer runs a Second Section by accident,
which was behind many of its collisions.
**What changed in 0.7.9.8. Games already running on this server are not affected** — they resume
normally, and nothing in this update changes a rule, so no saved game stops being playable. (That is
the opposite of 0.7.9 below, which did change one. It was checked, not assumed.)