That’s regenerated taking addons.cfg as input.
Don’t. That’s shooting at the dark and not recommended because it does not explain what’s wrong and doesn’t help most of the time. That’s why I intentionally do not mention it here.
What most likely is required is to clear the cache, but you should not need to restart OH multiple times.
I don’t know of any (recent) such changes but of course yes there can have been. Which some user may feel annoyed by, but ultimately it is a progress, isn’t it.