diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 7087d28d30c..ccd539fa9af 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ New Features
   numeric, and conditional evaluators. BooleanOperations have been removed in preference of
   BooleanEvaluators. (Dennis Gove)
 
+* SOLR-9903: Stop interrupting the update executor on shutdown, it can cause graceful shutdowns to put replicas into Leader 
+  Initiated Recovery among other undesirable things. (Mark Miller)
 
 Bug Fixes
 ----------------------
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/UpdateShardHandler.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/UpdateShardHandler.java
index 5affae6c050..9d4eb7d1eed 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/UpdateShardHandler.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/UpdateShardHandler.java
@@ -178,8 +178,8 @@ public class UpdateShardHandler implements SolrMetricProducer, SolrInfoMBean {
 
   public void close() {
     try {
-      // we interrupt on purpose here, but this executor should not run threads that do disk IO!
-      ExecutorUtil.shutdownWithInterruptAndAwaitTermination(updateExecutor);
+      // do not interrupt, do not interrupt
+      ExecutorUtil.shutdownAndAwaitTermination(updateExecutor);
       ExecutorUtil.shutdownAndAwaitTermination(recoveryExecutor);
     } catch (Exception e) {
       SolrException.log(log, e);