sd-bus,sd-event: unify error handling of object descriptions

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@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
           show log timestamps in the UTC timezone. journalctl now also
           accepts -n/--lines=all to disable line capping in a pager.
 
+        * journalctl gained a new switch, --flush, that synchronously
+          flushes logs from /run/log/journal to /var/log/journal if
+          persistent storage is enabled. systemd-journal-flush.service
+          now waits until the operation is complete.
+
         * Services can notify the manager before they start a reload
           (by sending RELOADING=1) or shutdown (by sending
           STOPPING=1). This allows the manager to track and show the
@@ -56,7 +61,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
         * Route metrics can be specified for DHCP routes added by
           systemd-networkd.
 
-        * The SELinux context of socket-actived services can be set
+        * The SELinux context of socket-activated services can be set
           from the information provided by the networking stack
           (SELinuxContextFromNet= option).
 
@@ -70,13 +75,13 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
         * 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
           maintain this component of systemd it has now been removed.
 
-        * Swap units can use Discard= to specify discard options.
+        * Swap units can use Options= to specify discard options.
           Discard options specified for swaps in /etc/fstab are now
           respected.
 
@@ -84,7 +89,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
           virtualization.
 
         * The Password Agent protocol gained support for queries where
-          the user input is shown, useful e.g. for usernames.
+          the user input is shown, useful e.g. for user names.
           systemd-ask-password gained a new --echo option to turn that
           on.
 
@@ -92,8 +97,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
 
                 net.core.default_qdisc = fq_codel
 
-          This selects Fair Queueing Controlled Delay as the default
-          queueing discipline for network interfaces. fq_codel helps
+          This selects Fair Queuing Controlled Delay as the default
+          queuing discipline for network interfaces. fq_codel helps
           fight the network bufferbloat problem. It is believed to be
           a good default with no tuning required for most workloads.
           Downstream distributions may override this choice. On 10Gbit
@@ -129,11 +134,11 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
           option.
 
         * New kernel command line options mount.usr=, mount.usrflags=,
-          usrfstype= have been added that match root=, rootflags=,
+          mount.usrfstype= have been added that match root=, rootflags=,
           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
@@ -152,7 +157,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
           message flag has been added for all of systemd's PolicyKit
           authenticated method calls has been added. In particular
           this now allows optional interactive authorization via
-          PolicyKit for many of PID1's priviliged operations such as
+          PolicyKit for many of PID1's privileged operations such as
           unit file enabling and disabling.
 
         * "udevadm hwdb --update" learnt a new switch "--usr" for
@@ -163,6 +168,25 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
           pre-built database on systems where local configuration is
           unnecessary or unlikely.
 
+        * Calendar time specifications in .timer units now also
+          understand the strings "semi-annually", "quarterly" and
+          "minutely" as shortcuts (in addition to the preexisting
+          "anually", "hourly", ...).
+
+        * systemd-tmpfiles will now correctly create files in /dev
+          at boot which are marked for creation only at boot. It is
+          recommended to always create static device nodes with 'c!'
+          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,
@@ -1952,8 +1976,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 207:
           certain paths from operation.
 
         * journald will now automatically flush all messages to disk
-          as soon as a message of the log priorities CRIT, ALERT or
-          EMERG is received.
+          as soon as a message at the log level CRIT, ALERT or EMERG
+          is received.
 
         Contributions from: Andrew Cook, Brandon Philips, Christian
         Hesse, Christoph Junghans, Colin Walters, Daniel Schaal,