status wsrep_cluster_conf_id shows wrong value

[shinguz]

We have seen this already in MariaDB Galera Cluster (and I think we filed a bug about). But now also in Galera Cluster for MySQL:

wsrep_cluster_conf_id | 18446744073709551615

wsrep_cluster_conf_id shows a non-realistic high value. Probably this is -1. The old behaviour was more useful because you have seen how many node drops occurred with this status variable.

Probably in the internal accounting something went wrong.

Server version: 8.0.23 Source distribution
wsrep_provider_version | 4.8(rd54ebf8)

If you do not plan to fix this at least the docu should give some good idea how to interpret this value:
https://galeracluster.com/library/documentation/galera-status-variables.html#wsrep-cluster-conf-id