Certain file managers need this figure out that the executable is actually executable. The problem is further complicated by meson being uncooperative and not implementing its own -Db_pie=false correctly.
I forgot to update meson_options.txt when committing 360297c. At that
point, FUTURE_SAVE_VERSION in Config.h was 96. Without that, the game
can't load saves with GOL because they save as v96 elements.
Please update your existing build sites with
meson configure -Dfuture_major=96
as this change won't affect them unless you do.