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As a result `pnpm dedupe --check` always fails. This is an external report only; KFA has not reproduced it (https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/16331). Reported conditions: the reporter says 11.24.0 and 11.28.1 were stable on the same project, with identical lockfile hashes across three runs and a clean check. On 12.8.0 the hashes alternated between two states across the three runs. The setup uses `autoInstallPeers: false`, a `typescript` override, a trivial patch of `@react-native-async-storage/async-storage`, and a committed lockfile. The reporter says removing any of these pieces makes the lockfile stable. Starting without a lockfile reportedly gives a stable result under 12.8.0. The environment was Node 24.19.0 on macOS. The reporter links a repro repository, which was not inspected here.\n\nObserved difference: the reporter says the only difference between states is the key of that peer variant and the references to it from `@react-native-firebase/crashlytics`. The snapshot bodies under both keys are reportedly byte-identical. The reporter hypothesizes that the choice to hash a long peer suffix is not deterministic across resolution passes. That is a hypothesis; the cause is not maintainer-confirmed in the supplied content.\n\nMaintainer status: a project member said they were working on a fix, then said a fix was ready for review in PR 16335 with CI green (https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/16331). The comments are signed as written by an AI agent. The PR itself was not supplied, so its content, merge state and release version are unknown. Closure of the issue is not treated as proof of a shipped fix.\n\nPractical reading: if you see the same flip-flopping lockfile after upgrading to 12.x, check whether your version includes the fix from PR 16335 once its release status is verified from pnpm release notes. No workaround is reported in the source. 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