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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
@@ -76,7 +81,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
           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.
 
@@ -174,6 +179,14 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
           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,
@@ -1963,8 +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,