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 '@backstage/config': patch
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-Handle a case when boolean configuration parameters are given a string type of 'true' or 'false'. This happens particularly when such parameters are used with environmental substitution as environment variables are always strings.
+Adds the ability to coerce values to their boolean representatives.
+Values such as `"true"` `1` `on` and `y` will become `true` when using `getBoolean` and the opposites `false`.
+This happens particularly when such parameters are used with environmental substitution as environment variables are always strings.