ARD 3.1 Bug ? (task not ended)

Hello,
After updating to ARD 3.1 (from 3.0), I have some problems using unix task.
with 3.0 when I send "softwareupdate -a -i" (using root user) to a group of computer, all update were made in parallel and when each task finised, I can see a green icon "success".
with 3.1 after the task was send, I receive only "some times" the succes message
the main part of tasks are labeled as active (despite the fact that the softwareupdate process has cleanlly ended on the client machine).
I seems to be the "succesfull end" message was not send properly.
Any idea ? bug ??
Laurent

I noticed a similar behavior when running softwareupdate earlier. Had you already upgraded the clients to 3.1?
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