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           during startup. If no such message is sent, the service now fails,
           even if the main process exited with a successful exit code.
 
+        * Services that fail to start up correctly now always have their
+          ExecStopPost= commands executed. Previously, they'd enter "failed"
+          state directly, without executing these commands.
+
         * The option MulticastDNS= of network configuration files has acquired
           an actual implementation. With MulticastDNS=yes a host can resolve
           names of remote hosts and to reply to mDNS's A and AAAA requests from