Release Notes

Device RED8BEL1/33 has been removed. Device eqe/35 is deprecated and will be removed on 2025-09-04. Device shiba_beta/35 has been removed; migrate to shiba/35. Xcode 15.3 has been removed; migrate to Xcode 16.2.

Firebase Apple SDK v11.13.0 is now available.

Xcode 16.2 has been removed. Migrate to Xcode 16.4.

Xcode 16.4 is now available. Consider migrating to Xcode 16.4 now.

Test Lab has added iphonese3/18.4 and iphone16pro/18.3 to the device catalog. iOS default device updated to iphone16pro/18.3. Several devices deprecated and will be removed on 2025-11-28.

Firebase Apple SDK v12.5.0 is now available.

Graduates the MCP server from experimental to mcp, adds new features and fixes for SQL Connect, and includes fixes for Cloud Firestore and Hosting.

Removes the prompt and backend deletion of Firebase SQL Connect services during firebase deploy, fixes firebase init dataconnect failing on some operating systems, and adds support for setting the Google Cloud Storage (GCS) test results bucket in apptesting:execute and appdistribution:distribute.

The Firebase extension for Gemini CLI will stop working starting June 18, 2026, when Gemini CLI stops serving requests for individual, Google AI Pro, and Google AI Ultra tiers. Migrate to Antigravity CLI using the migration guide before this date. New users should install Firebase agent skills directly.

Firebase ML is deprecated and will be shut down on 2027-06-15. New projects shouldn't use it and existing projects should begin migrating away. For TensorFlow Lite model hosting, migrate to Cloud Storage. For Cloud Vision API calls, migrate to Firebase AI Logic or directly access Cloud Vision API endpoints.

Xcode 26.2 is now available. Consider migrating to Xcode 26.2 now.

Xcode 26.2 is now available. If you have not already done so, migrate to Xcode 26.2.

The Firebase Android SDKs for Firebase PNV have been updated. The Firebase Android BoM (Bill of Materials) has been updated to v34.14.1.

The Firebase Admin Node.js SDK v14.0.0 is now available. Starting from this release, the Admin SDK requires Node.js 22 or higher. This release includes improvements and new features in the core SDK, Cloud Messaging, Authentication, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Firestore APIs. Additionally, this release comes with a SDK-wide error handling revamp allowing for more detailed error handling capabilities. See the error handling guide for more details.

New features in Analytics and miscellaneous changes.

Updates Firebase SQL Connect genAI features to use the new Agent Service API, and updates the Firebase SQL Connect local toolkit to v3.4.10.

Hybrid inference for web apps is now Generally Available (GA). This enables running inference using on-device models when available and seamlessly falling back to cloud-hosted models otherwise. Includes ability to determine which inference mode was used for a request.

The Firebase JavaScript SDK (v12.14.0) is now available.

The Firebase Android SDKs for Firebase AI Logic, App Check, and SQL Connect have been updated. The Firebase Android BoM (Bill of Materials) has been updated to v34.14.0.

This version updates the Pub/Sub emulator, adds support for more ID providers in auth commands, and includes fixes for auth:export and SQL Connect deployments.