Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into mtewani/partial-errors

Author: maneesht

.changeset/chilled-tips-judge.md

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+---
+'@firebase/vertexai': minor
+---
+
+Add `systemInstruction`, `tools`, and `generationConfig` to `CountTokensRequest`.

.changeset/chilly-parrots-remember.md

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+---
+'@firebase/performance': patch
+'firebase': patch
+---
+
+Modify the retry mechanism to stop when remaining tries is less than or equal to zero, improving the robustness of the retry handling.

.changeset/flat-plums-hope.md

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+---
+'@firebase/firestore': patch
+'firebase': patch
+---
+
+Use lazy encoding in UTF-8 encoded byte comparison for strings.

.changeset/floppy-schools-battle.md

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+---
+'@firebase/database-compat': patch
+'@firebase/database-types': patch
+'@firebase/database': patch
+---
+
+Added non-null parent properties to ThenableReference