diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 575e069..b7aebbd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,23 @@ All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [v0.7.1] - 2026-07-02
+
+Quieter shutdowns: a job dispatch cancelled during shutdown is no longer reported
+as an error.
+
+### Changed
+
+- A cancelled job (`context.Canceled`) is now treated as an expected interruption
+  rather than a failure. When a worker function returns a `context.Canceled` error
+  (directly or wrapped), or a job dispatch returns one because the worker-thread
+  context was cancelled (e.g. during shutdown), `jobworker` no longer invokes the
+  `OnError` callback or logs the "Job error" / "Error while dispatching the job"
+  lines at `ERROR`/`WARN`. The job is still reset and retried without consuming a
+  retry attempt, exactly as before — only the spurious error reporting is dropped.
+  Genuine failures and per-job `JobTimeout` (`context.DeadlineExceeded`) are
+  unaffected and still reported.
+
 ## [v0.7.0] - 2026-06-18
 
 Faster job claiming via a cached prepared statement, a dedicated claim index,
@@ -227,6 +244,7 @@ commit;
 Last release before the worker liveness heartbeat work. See the git history for
 details of `v0.5.4` and earlier releases.
 
+[v0.7.1]: https://github.com/domonda/go-jobqueue/compare/v0.7.0...v0.7.1
 [v0.7.0]: https://github.com/domonda/go-jobqueue/compare/v0.6.0...v0.7.0
 [v0.6.0]: https://github.com/domonda/go-jobqueue/compare/v0.5.4...v0.6.0
 [v0.5.4]: https://github.com/domonda/go-jobqueue/releases/tag/v0.5.4
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index e7f5d1a..6425bba 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v0.7.0
\ No newline at end of file
+v0.7.1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/jobworker/dojob.go b/jobworker/dojob.go
index 5749a62..cb444ee 100644
--- a/jobworker/dojob.go
+++ b/jobworker/dojob.go
@@ -65,25 +65,30 @@ func DoJob(ctx context.Context, job *jobqueue.Job) (err error) {
 
 	result, jobErr := worker(jobCtx, job)
 	if jobErr != nil {
-		errorTitle := errs.Root(jobErr).Error()
-		if nl := strings.IndexByte(errorTitle, '\n'); nl > 0 {
-			// Only use first line of error message as errorTitle
-			errorTitle = errorTitle[:nl]
-		}
-		errorTitle = strings.TrimSpace(errorTitle)
+		// A cancelled job (e.g. during shutdown) is an expected interruption:
+		// doJobAndSaveResultInDB resets and retries it without consuming a retry
+		// attempt, so don't report it via OnError or log it as an error/warning.
+		if !errors.Is(jobErr, context.Canceled) {
+			errorTitle := errs.Root(jobErr).Error()
+			if nl := strings.IndexByte(errorTitle, '\n'); nl > 0 {
+				// Only use first line of error message as errorTitle
+				errorTitle = errorTitle[:nl]
+			}
+			errorTitle = strings.TrimSpace(errorTitle)
 
-		OnError(jobErr)
+			OnError(jobErr)
 
-		if job.CurrentRetryCount >= job.MaxRetryCount {
-			log.ErrorfCtx(jobCtx, "Job error: %s", errorTitle).
-				Any("job", job).
-				Err(jobErr).
-				Log()
-		} else {
-			log.WarnfCtx(jobCtx, "Job error: %s", errorTitle).
-				Any("job", job).
-				Err(jobErr).
-				Log()
+			if job.CurrentRetryCount >= job.MaxRetryCount {
+				log.ErrorfCtx(jobCtx, "Job error: %s", errorTitle).
+					Any("job", job).
+					Err(jobErr).
+					Log()
+			} else {
+				log.WarnfCtx(jobCtx, "Job error: %s", errorTitle).
+					Any("job", job).
+					Err(jobErr).
+					Log()
+			}
 		}
 
 		job.ErrorMsg.Set(jobErr.Error())
diff --git a/jobworker/dojob_internal_test.go b/jobworker/dojob_internal_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27b64cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jobworker/dojob_internal_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+package jobworker
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/domonda/go-errs"
+
+	"github.com/domonda/go-jobqueue"
+)
+
+// TestDoJobCanceledJobSkipsOnErrorAndLog verifies the cancellation guard in DoJob:
+// a worker that returns a context.Canceled error (directly or wrapped) is an
+// expected interruption, so DoJob must NOT invoke OnError or log it, yet it must
+// still return the error so doJobAndSaveResultInDB can detect the cancellation and
+// reset/retry the job. A genuine failure is the control: OnError still fires.
+func TestDoJobCanceledJobSkipsOnErrorAndLog(t *testing.T) {
+	resetWorkerRegistryState(t)
+
+	// OnError is a package-global callback; capture invocations and restore it.
+	origOnError := OnError
+	t.Cleanup(func() { OnError = origOnError })
+	var onErrorCalls []error
+	OnError = func(err error) { onErrorCalls = append(onErrorCalls, err) }
+
+	cases := []struct {
+		name        string
+		workerErr   error
+		wantOnError bool
+		wantCancel  bool
+	}{
+		{"direct context.Canceled", context.Canceled, false, true},
+		{"wrapped context.Canceled", errs.Errorf("dialing backend: %w", context.Canceled), false, true},
+		{"genuine failure", errs.New("boom"), true, false},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			onErrorCalls = nil
+			jobType := JobType("cancel-guard-" + tc.name)
+			Register(jobType, func(context.Context, *jobqueue.Job) (any, error) {
+				return nil, tc.workerErr
+			})
+
+			job := &jobqueue.Job{Type: jobType}
+			err := DoJob(t.Context(), job)
+
+			// The error is always returned so the caller can act on it.
+			require.Error(t, err)
+			assert.ErrorIs(t, err, tc.workerErr)
+
+			if tc.wantCancel {
+				// The worker-thread guard relies on context.Canceled surviving the
+				// wrapping DoJob applies to its returned error.
+				assert.ErrorIs(t, err, context.Canceled,
+					"cancellation must propagate out of DoJob")
+			}
+
+			if tc.wantOnError {
+				assert.Len(t, onErrorCalls, 1, "OnError must fire for a genuine failure")
+			} else {
+				assert.Empty(t, onErrorCalls, "OnError must be skipped for a cancelled job")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/jobworker/workerthreads.go b/jobworker/workerthreads.go
index b2c09f0..7bc966b 100644
--- a/jobworker/workerthreads.go
+++ b/jobworker/workerthreads.go
@@ -175,7 +175,9 @@ func worker(threadIndex int) {
 
 	for job := nextJob(ctx); job != nil; job = nextJob(ctx) {
 		err := doJobAndSaveResultInDB(ctx, job)
-		if err != nil {
+		// A cancelled dispatch is an expected shutdown interruption:
+		// the job is reset and retried, so don't report it as an error.
+		if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
 			OnError(err)
 			log.ErrorCtx(ctx, "Error while dispatching the job").
 				Err(err).