Changed behaviour for "apps" CLI query?

Dear all,
We receive reports from users with problems using the "apps" CLI query.

In our app (developed with version 7.7.2 and tested positively up to 7.8.*), we show all available apps/plugins as a list. To receive the list, we use a CLI query to the server: apps 0 1000

With all tested versions of the server, the result was a linear list of the following item tags: icon, cmd, weight, name and type. We used the "icon" tag to split the linear tag list into the separate app/plugin items...

Users with server versions 7.9.0-061 are sending us log file that show the response structure has changed and now, the resulting tags appear to be in arbitrary order:

name, type, cmd, weight, icon
weight, icon, name, type, cmd
icon, weight, name, type, cmd

Using the CLI, there is no way we can split the list into separate items any more. Can anyone please check if/why the response structure was changed? Is there any additional tag we can include in our request that allows splitting the tags into the items correctly?

Thank you for your support!

Best regards,
Lars