is there any reason that Job intent from old application will be retained during application upgrade ? I am getting a weird issue that a new intent received in the upgraded application is coming from the old serialized format.

source of truth is database. To confirm, try clearing storage of the app from settings (it will also delete scheduled requests)

is there any way to recover from this state ? it is happened in user (from the crashlytics report) but i can’t find a way to reproduce it locally.

without knowing specifics, your app updates could/should include migration logic like room database schema updates etc