pre-pre-merging 3.844

making this branch to show Joy's original milestone for evo and for
comparison stuff
readme; news item; version
3.844 unaltered

loading the original 3.844 sauce back so we can compare
it compiles and runs super well in-world
(and no garlic either!)
version tracking; news item
evo2beta migration

tracker, news item, link appengine
3.9 content upgrade backport
3.9 content upgrade backport II
news header; news item

even if we migrate this channel to receive future betas instead evos, we
want to tap into the evolution news item one more time for this specific
version