Thanks for the report.
The previous behavior was rather eccentric. Security updates that
require restart aren't inherently more important than security updates
that don't. So it wouldn't make sense for us to highlight any menu when
available security updates happen to require a restart, but not when
they don't.
So how about if we highlighted a menu when *any* security updates were
available? Well we used to do the equivalent of that before 2009, with
the update-notifier panel applet. We replaced that with the Software
Updater alert. But even if it was still a good idea to highlight a menu
bar element when updates were available, the session menu wouldn't be
the appropriate menu to use; it contains nothing about updates.
(This is a drawback of referring to the menus as "indicators". In many
cases they do indicate things, but not all. That seems incomplete given
their name, but it's fine for a user who never sees that term.)
** Changed in: indicator-session (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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Session (gear) indicator not changing to red when restart required
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