I've approved the PR and will merge it once I get an all clear from Dominic.
Bringing up a conversation from Slack to the dev list for everyone's
benefit: while this PR restores backward compatibility, there was a point
raised about accumulating code for the sake of backward compatibility. The
Hi everyone,
I've created a PR to support upgrading live controller / invoker clusters
to get on to the new InstanceId json format without taking any downtime.
https://github.com/apache/openwhisk/pull/4970
The new InstanceId serialization was introduced in June so any live
clusters on an older
