You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Control ProtocolArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.248,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Sending a control response, cancelling a control request and sending a result no longer bail out early during 401 recovery. All three go through one write path now. Cancelling a request that was a dialog you already declined is retracted locally without a network round trip.
Evidence
Local-only retract of a declined dialog forward request_id=
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.