backstage/.changeset/brown-chairs-punch.md

@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend

@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend
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The catalog API now returns entity relations that have three fields: The old type and target fields, as well as a new targetRef field. The last one is the stringified form of the second one.

DEPRECATION: The target field is hereby deprecated, both as seen from the catalog API as well as from the @backstage/catalog-model package. Both target and targetRef will be produced for some time, but eventually, target will be removed entirely. Please update your readers to stop consuming the relations.[].target field from the catalog API as soon as possible.