Before, the Seconds_behind_master was updated already when an event
was queued for a worker thread to execute later. This might lead users
to interpret a low value as the slave being almost up to date with the
master, while in reality there might still be lots and lots of events
still queued up waiting to be applied by the slave.

See https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-developers/msg08958.html for
more detailed discussions.