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+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-react': minor
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+`EntityOwnerPicker` now loads entities asynchronously
+
+**BREAKING**: In order to improve the performance of the component, the users and groups displayed by `EntityOwnerPicker` aren't inferred
+anymore by the entities available in the `EntityListContext` and are not affected by the filters applied to the `EntityListContext`.
+Instead, the entities are displayed in batches, loaded asynchronously on scroll and filtered server side.