NEXT setting in AR invoices, Service, Purchase orders has changed?

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I wonder if this is by design, but it seems like release 25.3.72.0 has changed the way it grabs the "next" invoice number to be more like job numbers where it grabs the last highest number in the database instead of adding one to the last one that was saved?

Is this by design? It's causing issues on existing clients who have been in the system a long time and maybe have some weird entries that weren't causing problems before but now all the numbers are really big due to one-off invoices being made in the past. 

My solution is to add a "." in front of the bigger invoice numbers to trick the system into considering it a decimal, and therefore making it smaller (I do it for internal change orders to not break the numbers) 

I don't see any notes in the release notes, and this is quite impactful particularly to long time users.