Add version to shim protocol #8177
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For 2.0 we are planning on introducing an update to the shim protocol to support a wider range of capabilities. While the updates to the shim protocol are not fully decided, we can introduce versioning now to keep newer "v3 or however we version it" shims compatible with shim v2 in 1.7 or at the very least able to handle the incompatibility gracefully. This will make it easier to finalize on a shim protocol in 2.0 that is both backwards compatible and have the flexibility we know we need for plugin use cases.
Parts of the updated protocol and this can also be backported to 1.6 for the same compatibility guarantees