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 * Notification when the lease table is throttled  
   When writes, or reads, to the lease table are throttled a warning will be emitted.  If you're seeing this warning you should increase the IOPs for your lease table to prevent processing delays.
   * [PR #212](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pulls/212)
-* Support configuring the graceful shutdown timeout for MultiLang Clients
+* Support configuring the graceful shutdown timeout for MultiLang Clients  
+  This adds support for setting the timeout that the Java process will wait for the MutliLang client to complete graceful shutdown.  The timeout can be configured by adding `shutdownGraceMillis` to the properties file set to the number of milliseconds to wait.
+  * [PR #204](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/204)
 
 ### Release 1.8.1 (August 2, 2017)
 * Support timeouts for calls to the MultiLang Daemon