Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
InternalsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.248,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The single flag saying the latest log pointer had been updated is now two, one for marked and one for refused, so a permission failure is remembered distinctly from a success and not retried blindly.
Evidence
latestRefused
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.