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Summary

  • clerk-js now writes both __clerk_db_jwt cookies before stripping stale attribute variants, so a concurrent request never sees a hole during the rewrite.
  • @clerk/backend falls back to the unsuffixed __clerk_db_jwt when the suffixed cookie is missing and suffixed cookies are otherwise in use.

Fixes #10411

Test plan

  • createDevBrowserCookie set() writes both cookies before any remove, and only drops the partitioned variants
  • AuthenticateContext: suffixed session cookies plus only unsuffixed __clerk_db_jwt still yield a dev browser token
  • Existing suffixed-cookie AuthenticateContext cases still pass

clerk-js was deleting both __clerk_db_jwt cookies before writing them again, so concurrent requests on development instances hit clerkMiddleware as signed-out. Write the new cookies first, then drop only stale attribute variants, and fall back to the unsuffixed cookie on the backend when the suffixed one is gone.
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The browser now writes both dev-browser cookie names before removing stale attribute variants. For unpartitioned writes, it does not remove stale variants. Backend token lookup uses usesSuffixedCookies() to choose a preferred cookie and falls back to the other cookie. Tests cover cookie operation order and both backend fallback cases.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Switching cookie modes may leave an old token that causes development requests to appear signed out. Resolve that transition before merging.

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Title check Passed The title names the main change: clerk-js rewrites __clerk_db_jwt so no missing-cookie window exists. The changeset writes both cookies before removing stale partitioned variants, which matches the ti…
Description check Passed The description states both changes: clerk-js writes both __clerk_db_jwt cookies before stripping stale attribute variants, and @clerk/backend falls back to the unsuffixed cookie when the suffixed coo…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #10411 requires avoiding an incomplete dev-browser cookie state and supports backend fallback. createDevBrowserCookie.set writes both cookie variants before stale-variant cleanup. It skips cle…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes are limited to the issue-related cookie rewrite, backend token lookup, focused tests, and the patch-release changeset. These changes support issue #10411. No unrelated behavior is demonstr…
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The title names the main change: clerk-js rewrites __clerk_db_jwt so no missing-cookie window exists. The changeset writes both cookies before removing stale partitioned variants, which matches the title. The title does not mention the @clerk/backend fallback to the unsuffixed cookie, but that is a secondary part of the change. The title is specific and uses the fix(...) convention.

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The description states both changes: clerk-js writes both __clerk_db_jwt cookies before stripping stale attribute variants, and @clerk/backend falls back to the unsuffixed cookie when the suffixed cookie is missing. It also links issue #10411 and lists the test plan. It is directly related to the changeset.

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Issue #10411 requires avoiding an incomplete dev-browser cookie state and supports backend fallback. createDevBrowserCookie.set writes both cookie variants before stale-variant cleanup. It skips cleanup for unpartitioned writes and removes only unpartitioned variants after partitioned writes. AuthenticateContext.initHandshakeValues falls back to __clerk_db_jwt when suffixed cookies are active and the suffixed token is absent. Tests cover write ordering and both cookie-selection cases.

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- Around line 320-323: Update the DevBrowser cookie selection so the false
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cookie.remove({ sameSite: 'Lax', secure: getSecureAttribute('Lax'), partitioned: false });
cookie.remove({ sameSite: 'None', secure: getSecureAttribute('None'), partitioned: false });
} else {
cookie.remove(partitionedCookieAttributes);

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- diff ---'
git diff --no-ext-diff --unified=80 d005fee54006ecb2536f45042e0856c89577b1c1 9cbed1e106c291862d935a49860d1470867dd335 -- packages/clerk-js/src/core/auth/cookies/devBrowser.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- devBrowser references and definitions ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.tsx' -e 'createCookieHandler' -e 'partitionedCookieAttributes' -e 'removeStaleAttributeVariants' packages/clerk-js packages/backend packages 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- cookie handler candidates ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.tsx' -e 'function createCookieHandler' -e 'const createCookieHandler' -e 'export.*createCookieHandler' -e 'partitioned' packages 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant tests ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*test*' --glob '*spec*' -e 'devBrowser' -e '__clerk_db_jwt' -e 'partitioned' packages/clerk-js packages/backend 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- package and browser capability references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,tsx,js,json,md}' -e 'Partitioned' -e 'partitioned cookies' -e 'partitionedCookie' packages docs 2>/dev/null || true

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- shared cookie implementation ---'
nl -ba packages/shared/src/cookie.ts | sed -n '1,150p'
printf '%s\n' '--- dev browser cookie implementation ---'
nl -ba packages/clerk-js/src/core/auth/cookies/devBrowser.ts | sed -n '1,130p'
printf '%s\n' '--- dev browser cookie tests ---'
nl -ba packages/clerk-js/src/core/auth/cookies/__tests__/devBrowser.test.ts | sed -n '1,180p'
printf '%s\n' '--- environment and option binding ---'
nl -ba packages/clerk-js/src/core/auth/AuthCookieService.ts | sed -n '70,115p'
nl -ba packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/Environment.ts | sed -n '1,115p'
printf '%s\n' '--- partitioned-cookie capability detection ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,tsx,js}' -e 'partitionedCookies' -e 'Partitioned' -e 'supportsPartitioned' -e 'partitionedCookie' packages/shared packages/clerk-js | head -200
printf '%s\n' '--- package dependency/version context ---'
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L30: 【7†Summary】 Partitioned cookies not working in Safari 18.5
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L32: Yoav Weiss
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L34: 【8†Reported】 2025-05-14 00:29:09 PDT
L35: Reproduction test case: 【9†https://chips-site-a.glitch.me†chips-site-a.glitch.me】 Partitioned cookies worked in 18.4 and stopped working somewhere between that and 18.5 Trying to (manually) bisect, I see they already weren&#39;t working in 286403, the last commit of STP 208. (Earlier archived builds are unrelatedly crashing on my machine)
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L41: John Wilander
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L43: 【11†Comment 1】 2025-05-14 06:59:44 PDT
L44: Hi, Yoav, and thanks for filing! We unfortunately had to turn CHIPS off due to a serious bug that was too complex to address in the software update. The bug is not in WebKit. We don’t know right now when we’ll be able to turn it back on. Sorry about that.
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L50: Thanks for the update!
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L55: Hey! Was about to report this same or similar issue. It seems that with partitioned cookies turned off, cookies that are partitioned are getting entirely rejected (instead of being set without partitioning as was the previous experience). Interestingly, they seem to get still get set when the dev tools are open making this very tricky to debug.
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L63: Constructory
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L66: How is this labeled as a &#39;normal&#39; severity bug? Is this how things usually done now ? This has potential to collapse most of the integrations done on some major industries. Are we just going to say that some guy at developing webkit handicapped cookies so bear with us ? This place needs a Linus Torvalds....
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L72: CHIPS was enabled in our .4 releases and disabled in .5 due to a serious bug. Partitioned cookies with CHIPS are opt-in.
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L76: 
L77: Unfortunately disabling CHIPS in .5 blocks any partitioned cookie from being set now. Previous to .4 they would still be set, but as if they were not partitioned. Our workaround at the moment is to detect safari and explicitly not set partitioned cookies.
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L88: 3rd party iframes that previously functioned correctly using partitioned cookies are now failing entirely. Users are unable to log in to embedded content. This is not a minor issue. These integrations were stable and compliant in Safari .4, and if memory serves, the adoption of partitioned cookies followed Safari’s own guidance at the time.
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- 1: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292975
- 2: https://www.mail-archive.com/webkit-changes%40lists.webkit.org/msg249072.html

Do not run partitioned cleanup on browsers that do not support Partitioned.

When partitioned is false, set writes unpartitioned cookies and then calls remove(partitionedCookieAttributes). Safari versions that treat Partitioned as unpartitioned can apply that expiry write to the cookie just written, recreating the missing-cookie window. The option is environment-driven, and this path has no browser-support guard. Skip this cleanup when the browser does not support partitioned cookies, and test that the cookies remain after set.

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Update set so it skips cookie.remove(partitionedCookieAttributes) when the
browser does not support Partitioned, while preserving cleanup on supported
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…ite.

Safari can treat a Partitioned expiry as applying to the cookie we just wrote. Also keep a suffixed __clerk_db_jwt fallback when session cookies are unsuffixed.

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- Around line 135-138: Update the cookie mock in the `devBrowser` tests so its
store distinguishes partitioned from unpartitioned cookies, using separate
stores or including partitioned state in the key for both `set()` and
`remove()`. Reset both stores between tests and assert that the partitioned
values for `suffixedCookieName` and `unsuffixedCookieName` remain after
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Comment on lines +135 to +138
expect(ops.map(op => op.op)).toEqual(['set', 'set', 'remove', 'remove', 'remove', 'remove']);
expect(ops[0]).toEqual({ op: 'set', name: suffixedCookieName });
expect(ops[1]).toEqual({ op: 'set', name: unsuffixedCookieName });
expect(ops.slice(2).every(op => op.op === 'remove')).toBe(true);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

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Track partitioned and unpartitioned cookie variants in the mock.

remove() ignores its attributes and deletes cookieStore by name. The four unpartitioned cleanup calls therefore delete both entries written by the partitioned set(), while the test checks only operation order. No other test in this file checks that partitioned values survive.

Use separate stores, or include the partitioned state in the store key, and assert both partitioned cookie values remain.

Suggested test fix
-const { cookieStore, removeCalls, setCalls, ops } = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+const { cookieStore, partitionedCookieStore, removeCalls, setCalls, ops } = vi.hoisted(() => ({
   cookieStore: new Map<string, string>(),
+  partitionedCookieStore: new Map<string, string>(),
   removeCalls: [] as Array<{ name: string; attributes?: object }>,
   setCalls: [] as Array<{ name: string; value: string; attributes?: object }>,
   ops: [] as Array<{ op: 'set' | 'remove'; name: string }>,
 }));
...
-      cookieStore.delete(name);
+      const store = (attributes as { partitioned?: boolean } | undefined)?.partitioned
+        ? partitionedCookieStore
+        : cookieStore;
+      store.delete(name);
...
-      cookieStore.set(name, value);
+      const store = (attributes as { partitioned?: boolean } | undefined)?.partitioned
+        ? partitionedCookieStore
+        : cookieStore;
+      store.set(name, value);
...
     cookieStore.clear();
+    partitionedCookieStore.clear();
...
     expect(ops.slice(2).every(op => op.op === 'remove')).toBe(true);
+    expect(partitionedCookieStore.get(suffixedCookieName)).toBe(devBrowser);
+    expect(partitionedCookieStore.get(unsuffixedCookieName)).toBe(devBrowser);
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Update the cookie mock in the `devBrowser` tests so its store distinguishes
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if (!wrotePartitioned) {
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printf '%s\n' '--- current writer ---'
nl -ba packages/clerk-js/src/core/auth/cookies/devBrowser.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- cookie symbols ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,tsx}' -e 'createCookieHandler' -e 'createDevBrowserCookie' -e '__clerk_db_jwt' packages/clerk-js packages/backend packages/shared 2>/dev/null || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- backend cookie parsing candidates ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,tsx}' -e 'suffixed_cookies' -e 'getCookie' -e 'cookie' packages/backend/src packages/shared/src 2>/dev/null | head -240

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printf '%s\n' '--- clerk request parser ---'
nl -ba packages/backend/src/tokens/clerkRequest.ts | sed -n '88,105p'
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L295: #### After unpartitioned third-party cookies are blocked
L296: 
L297: Without the ability to set any cross-site cookies, one alternative that services like `embed.maps.com` have is to use other forms of browser storage (e.g. LocalStorage). In order to detect the presence of these other types of client state, `embed.maps.com` will have to wait for a JavaScript execution context to load before they can access the user preferences: resulting in longer loading times and a worse user experience.
L298: Our goal is for sites like `embed.maps.com` to be able to set a cookie while embedded into `shoes.com` that would only be sent when the user&#39;s browser&#39;s top-level site is `shoes.com`. If the user navigates to another top-level site, subsequent requests to `embed.maps.com` would not include the cookie set when the top-level site was `shoes.com`. This would enable `embed.maps.com` to store user preferences with cookies without being able to store a cross-site identifier on users&#39; machines.
L317: Our goal is to provide services like `support.chat.com` the ability to set cookies when they are in a third-party context. However, that cookie is only available when the user is browsing the same top-level site that the cookie was set in. This allows `support.chat.com` to have a notion of session within a single top-level site without giving them a cross-site tracking mechanism.
L349: This principle is in line with the 【133†principle of least privilege†en.wikipedia.org】 in the long term. Initially, this new attribute will restrict a cookie&#39;s behavior, since it will limit the scope in which cookies can be sent compared to unpartitioned third-party cookies. But, in the long term these cookies will be the only cookies available in cross-party contexts.
L350: Although existing software and APIs will need to be updated to support this new cookie attribute, we believe that an opt-in will be the best way to help move the web from (unpartitioned) third-party cookies without causing unexpected bugs. See the 【76†Partition all third-party cookies by default】 section below for more information.
L351: ### Only sent over secure protocols
L352: 
L353: Partitioned cookies must only be set by and sent over secure protocols. This helps address some aspects of cookies&#39; 【134†weak confidentiality†tools.ietf.org】 and 【135†weak integrity†tools.ietf.org】.
L355: One concern about introducing partitioned cookies is the proliferation of state on users&#39; machines. With unpartitioned third-party cookies, a single third party only needed to set one cookie on a user&#39;s machine which could be used for cross-site requests across all top-level sites a user visits. After unpartitioned third-party cookies are removed, a third party will need to set one cookie per top-level context that the user visits, resulting in more cookies set on users&#39; machines.
L356: Browsers that wish to support partitioned cookies must impose additional limitations on the number of cookies available to a third-party domain per-partition.
L357: 
L358: However, it is also necessary for user agents to design these limits in a way that does not allow malicious third parties from learning cross-site information about users. See 【113†Limit the number of cookies in a partition】 for 【114†Applying the 180 cookies-per-domain limit】 in 【136†Alternative Designs for CHIPS】 for more details.
L359: ## Detailed Design
L360: ### Partitioning model
L361: 
L362: Today, cookies are keyed on the hostname or domain of the site that set them, i.e. their host key. After CHIPS, cookies that opt into partitioning will be double-keyed on their partition key and their host key. A cookie&#39;s partition key is the 【137†site†html.spec.whatwg.org】 (i.e. scheme and registrable domain) of the top-level URL the br…[truncated]</excerpt>
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L391:        Cookie: SID=31d4d96e407aad42
L392: 
L393:        As shown in the next example, the server can store multiple cookies
L394:        at the user agent.  For example, the server can store a session
L395:        identifier as well as the user&#39;s preferred language by returning two
L396:        Set-Cookie header fields.  Notice that the server uses the Secure and
L397:        HttpOnly attributes to provide additional security protections for
L398:        the more sensitive session identifier (see 【38†Section 4.1.2】.)
L399:        == Server -&gt; User Agent ==
L400: 
L401:        Set-Cookie: SID=31d4d96e407aad42; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly
L402:        Set-Cookie: lang=en-US; Path=/; Domain=example.com
L403: 
L404:        == User Agent -&gt; Server ==
L405: 
L406:        Cookie: SID=31d4d96e407aad42; lang=en-US
L407: 
L408:        Notice that the Cookie header above contains two cookies, one named
L409:        SID and one named lang.  If the server wishes the user agent to
L410:        persist the cookie over multiple &quot;sessions&quot; (e.g., user agent
L411:        restarts), the server can specify an expiration date in the Expires
L412:        attribute.  Note that the user agent might delete the cookie before
L413:        the expiration date if the user agent&#39;s cookie store exceeds its
L414:        quota or if the user manually deletes the server&#39;s cookie.
L415: 
L416: 
L417: 
L418: 
L419: 
L420: 
L421: 
L422:     Barth                        Standards Track                    [Page 7]
L423: 
L424:     【9†RFC 6265】             HTTP State Management Mechanism          April 2011
L425:        == Server -&gt; User Agent ==
L426: 
L427:        Set-Cookie: lang=en-US; Expires=Wed, 09 Jun 2021 10:18:14 GMT
L428: 
L429:        == User Agent -&gt; Server ==
L430: 
L431:        Cookie: SID=31d4d96e407aad42; lang=en-US
L432: 
L433:        Finally, to remove a cookie, the server returns a Set-Cookie header
L434:        with an expiration date in the past.  The server will be successful
L435:        in removing the cookie only if the Path and the Domain attribute in
L436:        the Set-Cookie header match the values used when the cookie was
L459:        The Set-Cookie HTTP response header is used to send cookies from the
L460:        server to the user agent.
L461: 
L462: 
L463: 
L464:     #### 【37†4.1.1】.  Syntax
L465: 
L528:        The portions of the set-cookie-string produced by the cookie-av term
L529:        are known as attributes.  To maximize compatibility with user agents,
L530:        servers SHOULD NOT produce two attributes with the same name in the
L531:        same set-cookie-string.  (See 【63†Section 5.3】 for how user agents handle
L532:        this case.)
L533: 
L534: 
L535: 
L536: 
L537:     Barth                        Standards Track                    [Page 9]
L538: 
L539:     【9†RFC 6265】             HTTP State Management Mechanism          April 2011
L540: 
L541: 
L542:        Servers SHOULD NOT include more than one Set-Cookie header field in
L543:        the same response with the same cookie-name.  (See 【52†Section 5.2】 for
L544:        how user agents handle this case.)
L545: 
L546:        If a server sends multiple responses containing Set-Cookie headers
L547:        concurrently to the user agent (e.g., when communicating with the
L548:        user agent over multiple sockets), these responses create a &quot;race
L549:        condition&quot; that can lead to unpredictable behavior.
L571:        the user agent makes an HTTP request, the user agent includes the
L572:        applicable, non-expired cookies in the Cookie header.
L573: 
L574:        If the user agent receives a new cookie with the same cookie-name,
L575:        domain-value, and path-value as a cookie that it has already stored,
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       cookie-header = &quot;Cookie:&quot; OWS cookie-string OWS
       cookie-string = cookie-pair *( &quot;;&quot; SP cookie-pair )
    
    
    
    #### 4.2.2.  Semantics
    
    
    
       Each cookie-pair represents a cookie stored by the user agent.  The
       cookie-pair contains the cookie-name and cookie-value the user agent
       received in the Set-Cookie header.
    
       Notice that the cookie attributes are not returned.  In particular,
       the server cannot determine from the Cookie header alone when a
       cookie will expire, for which hosts the cookie is valid, for which
       paths the cookie is valid, or whether the cookie was set with the
       Secure or HttpOnly attributes.
    
       The semantics of individual cookies in the Cookie header are not
       defined by this document.  Servers are expected to imbue these
       cookies with application-specific semantics.
    
       Although cookies are serialized linearly in the Cookie header,
       servers SHOULD NOT rely upon the serialization order.  In particular,
       if the Cookie header contains two cookies with the same name (e.g.,
       that were set with different Path or Domain attributes), servers
       SHOULD NOT rely upon the order in which these cookies appear in the
       header.
    
    ## 5.  User Agent Requirements
    
    
    
       This section specifies the Cookie and Set-Cookie headers in
       sufficient detail that a user agent implementing these requirements
       precisely can interoperate with existing servers (even those that do
       not conform to the well-behaved profile described in Section 4).
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<excerpt>citeturn0search3 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 2 weeks ago; After unpartitioned third-party cookies are removed, a third party will need to set one cookie per top-level context that the user visits, resulting in more cookies set on users&#39; machines. ... Also, we would modify the first part of step 19 of the algorithm in step 5.4 to also include the partition-key in the list of cookie attributes to check, so that two cookies with the same name, domain, host-only-flag, and path can coexist in the cookie store if their partition-key values differ.
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Improvements

  * Faster stringify cookie (#262)
  * Optimize encode performance (#269)
  * Apply `encode` to empty cookie values (#277)

Fixed

  * Omit leading semicolon when stringifying cookies with skipped values (#267)

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- 1: https://github.com/jshttp/cookie/releases?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://github.com/privacycg/CHIPS/blob/main/README.md
- 3: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6265

Handle the partitioned-to-unpartitioned transition.

When partitioned is false, removeStaleAttributeVariants() returns at lines 65-66. The previous Partitioned variants remain after the unpartitioned values are written. CHIPS permits both variants to coexist, and the Cookie header does not include cookie attributes. The backend therefore cannot distinguish them by partition status, so the stale token can be selected.

Add transition-safe cleanup for the Partitioned variants. Do not remove them blindly, because the existing Safari comment documents that this can expire the new unpartitioned cookie.

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Review comment at @packages/clerk-js/src/core/auth/cookies/devBrowser.ts around
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Update removeStaleAttributeVariants so the unpartitioned path also cleans up
stale Partitioned variants after the new unpartitioned values are written.
Preserve the Safari safeguard by ensuring cleanup cannot expire the newly
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