Adding major changes on the server and controller side to allow exist…

[9aman]

…ing and pauseless flow

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1. The PR has to be tagged with at least one of the following labels (*):
   1. feature
   2. bugfix
   3. performance
   4. ui
   5. backward-incompat
   6. release-notes (**)
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(*) Other labels to consider:

• testing
• dependencies
• docker
• kubernetes
• observability
• security
• code-style
• extension-point
• refactor
• cleanup

(**) Use release-notes label for scenarios like:

• New configuration options
• Deprecation of configurations
• Signature changes to public methods/interfaces
• New plugins added or old plugins removed