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'@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend': minor
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The way that wiring together a catalog happens, has changed drastically. Now
there is a new class `CatalogBuilder` that does almost all of the heavy lifting
of how to augment/replace pieces of catalog functionality, such as adding
support for custom entities or adding additional processors.

As the builder was added, a lot of the static methods and builders for default
setups have been removed from classes deep in the hierarchy. Instead, the
builder contains the knowledge of what the defaults are.