Firebase C++ SDK 9.3.0

Prebuilt versions of the libraries are available for download here.

• Changes
  • General (Android,Linux): Fixed a concurrency bug where waiting for an event with a timeout could occasionally return prematurely, as if the timeout had occurred (#1021).

Firebase C++ SDK 9.2.0

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• Changes
  • GMA: Added the Google Mobile Ads SDK with updated support for AdMob. See the Get Started Guide for more information.
  • AdMob: The AdMob SDK has been deprecated. Please update your app to use the new Google Mobile Ads SDK which facilitates similar functionality.
  • General (Android): Switched over to Android BoM (Bill of Materials) for dependency versions. This requires Gradle 5.
  • Database (Desktop): If the app data directory doesn't exist, create it. This fixes an issue with disk persistence on Linux.
  • Messaging (Android): Fixed #973. Make sure all the resources are closed in RegistrationIntentService.
  • Firestore: Added TransactionOptions to control how many times a transaction will retry commits before failing (#966).

Firebase C++ SDK 9.1.0

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• Changes
  • General (Android): Fixed a bug that required Android apps to include com.google.android.gms:play-services-base as an explicit dependency when only using AdMob, Analytics, Remote Config, or Messaging.
  • Functions: Add a new method GetHttpsCallableFromURL, to create callables with URLs other than cloudfunctions.net.
  • Analytics (iOS): Added InitiateOnDeviceConversionMeasurementWithEmail function to facilitate the on-device conversion measurement API.
  • Firestore (Desktop): On Windows, you must additionally link against the bcrypt and dbghelp system libraries.

Firebase C++ SDK 9.0.0

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• Changes
  • General (iOS): Firebase C++ on iOS is now built using Xcode 13.3.1.
  • General (Android): Firebase C++ on Android is now built against NDK version r21e.
  • General (Android): Support for gnustl (also known as libstdc++) has been removed. Please use libc++ instead. Android libraries have been moved from libs/android/ARCH/STL to libs/android/ARCH.
  • AdMob (iOS): Temporarily pinned AdMob dependency to a special version of the Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK Cocoapod, "7.69.0-cppsdk2", to maintain compatibility with version 9.x of the Firebase iOS SDK.
  • Analytics: Removed deprecated event names and parameters.
  • Realtime Database (Desktop): Fixed a bug handling server timestamps on 32-bit CPUs.
  • Storage (Desktop): Set Content-Type HTTP header when uploading with custom metadata.

Firebase C++ SDK 8.11.0

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• Changes
  • Firestore/Database (Desktop): Upgrade LevelDb dependency to 1.23
    (#886).
  • Firestore/Database (Desktop): Enabled Snappy compression support
    in LevelDb
    (#885).

Firebase C++ SDK 8.10.0

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• Changes
  • General (iOS): Fixed additional issues on iOS 15 caused by early
    initialization of Firebase iOS SDK.
  • Remote Config: Fixed default Fetch() timeout being 1000 times too
    high.
  • Storage (Desktop): Added retry logic to PutFile, GetFile, and other operations.

Firebase C++ SDK 8.9.0

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• Changes
  • General (iOS): Fixed an intermittent crash on iOS 15 caused by constructing C++ objects during Objective-C's +load method. (#706) (#783)
  • General: Internal changes to Mutex class.

Firebase C++ SDK 8.8.0

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• Changes
  • General: Fixed a data race that could manifest as null pointer dereference in FutureBase::Release(). (#747)
  • General (iOS): iOS SDKs are now built using Xcode 12.4.
  • General (Desktop): macOS SDKs are now built using Xcode 12.4.
  • Auth (Desktop): Fixed a crash in error_code() when a request is cancelled or times out. (#737)
  • Firestore: Fix "unaligned pointers" build error on macOS Monterey (#712).
  • Messaging (Android): Fixed crash during termination. (#739) (#745)
  • Messaging (Android): Fixed crash during initialization. (#760)
  • Remote Config (Desktop): Fixed cache expiration time value used by RemoteConfig::FetchAndActivate(). (#767)

Firebase C++ SDK 8.7.0

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• Changes
  • Firestore: Released to general availability for Android and iOS (desktop support remains in beta).
  • General (Android): Minimum SDK version is now 19.
  • General: Variant double type now support 64-bit while saving to json. (#1133).
  • Analytics (tvOS): Analytics is now supported on tvOS.
  • Firestore (iOS): Fix a crash when Transaction.GetSnapshotAsync() was invoked after FirebaseFirestore.TerminateAsync() (#8760).

Firebase C++ SDK 8.6.0

Prebuilt versions of the libraries are available for download here.

• Changes
  • General (Desktop): MacOS SDKs are now built using Xcode 12.2, and include support for ARM-based Mac systems.
  • General (iOS): iOS SDKs are now built using Xcode 12.2.
  • Messaging (Android): Fixes an issue to receive token when initialize the app. (#667).
  • Auth (Desktop): Fix a crash that would occur if parsing the JSON response from the server failed (#692).