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Claude Code v2.1.238 ·

Self-hosted runner shutdown defers new sessions instead of refusing them outright

A shutting-down self-hosted runner now finishes assigned sessions instead of refusing them outright.

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What

After a SIGTERM, the runner no longer immediately turns away work. A session assigned during shutdown is still served until a defer ceiling or its idle timer releases it, and a session that declines release because a user event is pending gets re-spawned. Only past the ceiling does the runner refuse to start it and put it back on the queue.

Details
  • Applies to every self-hosted runner on this build; there is no flag.
  • The warning printed on a second signal now reads "Another SIGTERM" rather than "A second SIGTERM".
Evidence

[runner:shutdown] defer ceiling reached (

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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