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         * Udev rules can now remove tags on devices with TAG-="foobar".
 
         * systemd's readahead implementation has been removed. In many
-          circumstatances it didn't give expected benefits even for
+          circumstances it didn't give expected benefits even for
           rotational disk drives and was becoming less relevant in the
           age of SSDs. As none of the developers has been using
           rotating media anymore, and nobody stepped up to actively
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           rootfstype= but allow mounting a specific file system to
           /usr.
 
-        * The $NOTIFY_SOCKET is now also passed to control processesof
+        * The $NOTIFY_SOCKET is now also passed to control processes of
           services, not only the main process.
 
         * This version reenables support for fsck's -l switch. This
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           and 'b!', so that they are created only at boot and not
           overwritten at runtime.
 
+        * When the watchdog logic is used for a service (WatchdogSec=)
+          and the watchdog timeout is hit the service will now be
+          terminated with SIGABRT (instead of just SIGTERM), in order
+          to make sure a proper coredump and backtrace is
+          generated. This ensures that hanging services will result in
+          similar coredump/backtrace behaviour as services that hit a
+          segmentation fault.
+
         Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Andrei Borzenkov,
         Angus Gibson, Ansgar Burchardt, Ben Wolsieffer, Brandon L.
         Black, Christian Hesse, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch,