Firebase Release Notes

Cloud Firestore

Firestore Pipeline operations are now available as part of the Native mode of Firestore Enterprise edition. This mode integrates two distinct operations: Core and Pipelines. The Firestore Core operations provide the standard document Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) functionality, along with built-in support for real-time listen queries and offline persistence. The Firestore Pipeline operations employ a flexible query syntax enabling advanced data retrieval operations for applications. To learn more about Pipeline operations, see

Pipelines overview

.

SDK Releases

The Firebase Android SDKs for Firebase AI Logic, Cloud Firestore, Crashlytics, Crashlytics NDK, and Data Connect have been updated. The initial release of Firebase PNV is also available. For more details, check out the latest Android Release Notes. To get started with Firebase in Android, see Add Firebase to your Android Project.

The Firebase Android BoM (Bill of Materials) has been updated to v34.8.0. Learn how to add SDKs to your app using the Firebase BoM.

Gemini API

The following
Gemini
models will be retired soon. These dates are applicable to both the
Gemini Developer API
(Google AI) and the
Vertex AI
Gemini API.

The following models:
gemini-2.0-flash-001 (and its auto-updated alias gemini-2.0-flash)
gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001 (and its auto-updated alias gemini-2.0-flash-lite)

• February 6, 2026: These models will no longer be available for use in projects that had no prior usage of the model.
• March 3, 2026: These models will be retired.

Note that stable
Gemini Live API
2.0 models are not impacted.
If you use these models with
Firebase AI Logic
or with
Genkit
, make sure to
update to a newer model (like
gemini-2.5-flash-lite
) to avoid service disruption. Retired models are no longer accessible or supported by Google, and a request using a retired model name returns a 404 error.

Firebase AI Logic

For Gemini Live API implementations, make sure that your app uses one of the native audio models. All other Live API models are now retired. Here are the most currently available model names:

• Gemini Developer API
  • gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025
    Even though this is a preview model, it's available on the "free tier" of the Gemini Developer API.
• Vertex AI Gemini API
  • gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio
    When using the Vertex AI Gemini API, the Live API models are not supported in the global location.

Note that the native audio models always require audio input (along with optional additional modalities of text or video input), and they always respond with audio output.

You can use the Gemini Live API via Firebase AI Logic to build low-latency, real-time voice and video interactions, including adding text transcriptions of audio input and output.

Firebase CLI (v15.0.0)

The latest Firebase CLI (v15.0.0) is now available. This version includes multiple breaking changes, including removal of support for
.bolt
rules files and Java versions prior to 21 for emulators. It also includes updates to Data Connect and Firestore emulators and other improvements. To use the
Firebase CLI
in your development environment,
set up or update the CLI
.

SDK Releases

The
Firebase Apple SDK (v12.7.0)
is now available. For more details, see the
Firebase Apple SDK release notes
. To install this SDK, see
Add Firebase to your app
.