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+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend': patch
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+Fix issue for conditional decisions based on properties stored as arrays, like tags.
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+Before this change, having a permission policy returning conditional decisions based on metadata like tags, such like `createCatalogConditionalDecision(permission, catalogConditions.hasMetadata('tags', 'java'),)`, was producing wrong results. The issue occurred when authorizing entities already loaded from the database, for example when authorizing `catalogEntityDeletePermission`.