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Firebase Ships a Codex Plugin That Provisions Your Backend
Firebase's new Codex plugin bundles agent skills, the MCP server and the CLI so Codex can create projects, add Auth and write Security Rules from a prompt.
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Firebase Server Change Crashed iOS Apps, No Update Needed
A bad Firebase Analytics config payload crashed iOS apps on launch Sept. 28-29. Google says the fix is server-side, but the SDK still can't survive it.
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Firebase Ships Replay Protection, iOS Apps Can't Use It Yet
Firebase's Admin SDKs finished shipping App Check replay protection, but a FlutterFire bug stops iOS and macOS from getting the short-lived tokens it needs.
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Firebase Cloud Functions Gets the Auth Triggers 1st Gen Had
A Sept 15 release lets Cloud Functions for Firebase (2nd gen) fire onUserCreated and onUserDeleted natively, closing a gap open since 2nd gen launched.
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Firebase AI Logic Puts a Gatekeeper on Every Gemini Request
Firebase AI Logic now runs developer-written Cloud Functions before and after every Gemini request, letting teams moderate, cap or redact calls server-side.
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Firebase Spend Caps Can Pause Your App, but Not Your Bill
Firebase's new spend caps pause AI Logic, Functions and App Hosting at 100% of budget, but reporting lag means overages before the pause still bill in full.
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Firebase's Extensions Off-Ramp Can Now Run Unattended
Firebase adds a force flag to its Extensions migration command, letting teams script the move off Extensions ahead of the March 2027 shutdown.
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Firebase Remote Config Ends Its Free-Forever Era
Firebase Remote Config moved to usage-based pricing on Sep 1, tied to a bundled A/B Testing overhaul rather than announced on its own.
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Firebase's Agent Skills Now Start With a Failing Eval
Firebase's product team stopped guessing what AI coding agents needed and now writes a failing eval first, then builds skills to pass it.
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Firebase App Check Brings reCAPTCHA Enterprise to Mobile Apps
Firebase App Check added reCAPTCHA Enterprise as an attestation option for Android, Apple platforms and Flutter, matching the option web apps already had.
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Firebase's Imagen Deadline Moved Twice, Its Replacement Has One Too
Firebase's Imagen shutdown, pushed back once already, hits today. The replacement Google pointed everyone to already has its own October expiration date.
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Firebase Retires the Vertex AI Name, Changes Your Default Region
Firebase's JS SDK deprecates VertexAIBackend for AgentPlatformBackend, and the new class defaults to global instead of us-central1.
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Firebase CLI Now Detects When an AI Agent Is Running It
Firebase CLI 15.26.0 auto-enables non-interactive mode when it detects an AI agent, adds a two-phase login flow and per-service App Check commands.
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Firebase Sunsets Extensions, Its Third Wind-Down This Year
Firebase will retire Extensions by March 2027, the third major product wind-down in about a year, after Studio and ML.
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Firebase's Newest Gemini Models Are Cheaper, Not Bigger
Firebase AI Logic now supports Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, cheaper than 3.5 Flash, but Google shipped no flagship model alongside them.
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Firebase Crashlytics Splits System Kills From Memory Errors
On Android 17 and up, Crashlytics now gives Low Memory Kills and OutOfMemoryErrors their own separate issues instead of one shared bucket.
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Firebase Remote Config on Web Now Tracks Rollout Changes Live
The JS SDK's realtime listener used to miss rollout updates that didn't touch a parameter's value. A July 9 release closes that gap for good.
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Firebase Crashlytics Now Separates Android 17's Memory Kills
Crashlytics now separates Low Memory Kills from Out of Memory exceptions on Android 17 devices, surfacing what Android's new memory limits are doing.
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Firebase Cloud Messaging Retires the Registration Token, Docs Lag
Firebase's Node, Java and Python Admin SDKs now deprecate FCM's token field for fid, the Installation ID, but docs for targeted sends haven't caught up.
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Firebase's Auth Export Was Quietly Stripping MFA Enrollment
Firebase CLI v15.22.4 fixes auth:export and auth:import silently dropping mfaInfo, which had stripped MFA enrollment from users migrated between projects.
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Firebase Now Force-Enables App Check for New AI Logic Apps
Firebase's console setup flow for AI Logic now turns on App Check automatically, closing off a common way developers shipped apps with an open Gemini API proxy.
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Firebase Pushes iOS Developers Off CocoaPods by October
Firebase stops publishing new Apple SDK versions to CocoaPods in October 2026, ahead of CocoaPods trunk going read-only in December. Migrate to SPM.
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Genkit's Go SDK Goes Stable with Anthropic and Ollama Plugins
Google's Genkit Go SDK hit its first stable release June 18, committing to backward API compatibility and shipping Claude, Vertex AI and Ollama plugins.
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Firebase Auth Emulator Now Mocks WebAuthn Passkeys
Firebase CLI v15.21.0 adds mock passkey support to the Auth emulator, so developers can test WebAuthn sign-in flows locally without hardware authenticators.
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Genkit 1.39 Retires the Chat Beta, Lands Production Agents
Genkit JS v1.39.0 removes the beta Chat API and ships defineAgent, a production multi-turn agent framework with Firestore session persistence.
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Firebase SQL Connect Streaming Lands in the JavaScript SDK
The Firebase JS SDK just gained streaming for SQL Connect, letting web apps subscribe to live PostgreSQL data using the @refresh directive.
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Firebase AI Logic Puts Gemini in Apple Foundation Models
Apple opened Foundation Models to cloud AI providers at WWDC 2026. Firebase AI Logic is now the Gemini entry point for iOS 27, in preview.
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App Check Gets Zero-Config Init in Firebase SDK 12.15
Firebase JS SDK 12.15.0 lets you drop the explicit reCAPTCHA provider from initializeAppCheck, reading recaptchaSiteKey from your project config instead.
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Firebase Drops Imagen: Migrate to Gemini Images Now
All Imagen models in Firebase AI Logic shut down June 24. Apps still calling them are broken. Here's the migration path to Gemini's Nano Banana models.
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Firestore Regional Endpoints Hit GA
Firestore's regional and multi-regional API endpoints are now GA on server SDKs, locking every request to one region for data-sovereignty compliance.
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Firebase at Google I/O 2026: Antigravity, Agent Skills, AI Logic
Firebase's May 2026 Google I/O drop: Antigravity 2.0 and Android Studio setup, Agent Skills for mobile, new AI Logic models, and Crashlytics for web.