Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Cloud SessionsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.248,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Cloud session startup messages now pass along a worker generation number when one is present, plus timestamps for when the worker was last seen up and when its boot was counted, and the session mode from bootstrap. Bookkeeping only, with no visible effect.
Evidence
workerEpoch
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.