Recovery related improvements - master

[vikinghawk]

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Same as #677 but for master

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[acogoluegnes]

@vikinghawk Thanks for this contribution. Would you have a one-liner to summary the changes for the changelog? Thanks.

[vikinghawk]

"Improvements to topology recovery retry logic"?

Would it be possible to cut a release of 5.12 next week?

[acogoluegnes]

@vikinghawk 5.12.0.RC1 is out.