My router silently and unexpectedly died several days ago. I was without an internet connection for about a day until I found the source of the problem and replaced the router.
Anyway, I noticed, with no internet connectivity, that both LiveUpdate and pulse updates in the NIS task list showed a status of "complete". I don't recall seeing this before the 19.5.0.145 update. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure than when I temporarily lost internet connectivity a year or so ago, both LiveUpdate and pulse updates showed a status of "failed to complete", or something to that effect. Seems to me that that's better than showing "complete", when in reality no updates have occurred.
Anyone else noticed this? Should be easy to verify. Not a big deal, but it is a change from earlier versions, and is now providing somewhat misleading information.