The early stop compared the offered version with the installed one for equality. Started from a release newer than the channel holds, the test went on to the updater with nothing to install. It now asks pacman's vercmp and stops when the offer is the same or older. The picture of a reboot that stuck was inside the condition that wants both the before and the after picture, so it was left out exactly when there was no after to show. It now has its own condition.