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-"@apollo/gateway": minor
+"@apollo/gateway": patch
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-created a hash of both queryHash and operation name for queryPlanStoreKey
+Previously the `queryPlanStoreKey` was a hash of the query concatenated with an unhashed `operationName` if it was present. This resulted in variable length cache keys that could become unnecessarily long, occupying additional space in the query plan cache.
+
+This change incorporates the `operationName` _into_ the hash itself (if `operationName` is present).
   
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