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+'@backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend-module-rails': patch
+---
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+- Align versions for the rails plugin
+- Move out the cookiecutter templating to it's own module that is depended on by the `scaffolder-backend` no breaking change yet, but we will drop first class support for `cookiecutter` in the future and it will become an opt-in feature.