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+'@firebase/firestore': patch
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+Fixes a regression that prevented Firestore from detecting Auth during its initial initialization, which could cause some writes to not be send.
+[4971](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk/pull/4971) didn't actually fix it.
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