diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yaml b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
index c120317..fd9a7f2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout aephysics
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      # Pin: 0.796.0, the latest release (f32x8 arrived in 0.788.0, aether#2428,
+      # Pin: 0.797.0, the latest release (f32x8 arrived in 0.788.0, aether#2428,
       # which the wide contact solver is written in). A reproducible bootstrap
       # version: the floor this code needs, verified on Linux by this job.
       - name: Install the released Aether toolchain and aeb
         run: |
           curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aether-lang-dev/aeb/main/get.sh \
-            | AE_PIN=0.796.0 AEB_REF=v0.325 sh
+            | AE_PIN=0.797.0 AEB_REF=v0.325 sh
           echo "$HOME/.local/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
 
       - name: Run the tests with ae
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install the released Aether toolchain and aeb
         run: |
           curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aether-lang-dev/aeb/main/get.sh \
-            | AE_PIN=0.796.0 AEB_REF=v0.325 sh
+            | AE_PIN=0.797.0 AEB_REF=v0.325 sh
           echo "$HOME/.local/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
 
       - name: Run the tests with ae
diff --git a/aephysics/files/module.ae b/aephysics/files/module.ae
index e4cbc4d..ba67a65 100644
--- a/aephysics/files/module.ae
+++ b/aephysics/files/module.ae
@@ -168,8 +168,7 @@ read_float(r: *Reader) -> float {
 load_height_field(path: string) -> *HeightFieldData {
     text, length, err = fs.read_binary(path)
     if string.length(err) > 0 { return null }
-    // The reader takes the text over and frees it when it goes (aether#2602:
-    // a free through the local now would free it twice).
+    // The reader takes the text over and frees it when it goes.
     r = Reader { text: text, length: length, at: 0, ok: true }
     def = height_field.height_field_def()
     def.count_x = read_int(&r)