Track Firebase SDK releases, console updates, and service changes

Monitor Firebase service changes before your mobile backend silently breaks

APIDrift monitors Firebase release notes for SDK breaking changes, Authentication flow updates, Firestore behavior modifications, and Cloud Messaging deprecations across their mobile and web platform.

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Sources tracked

HTML scraping

Source type

standard

Content depth

Firebase SDK updates can break your app across iOS, Android, and web simultaneously

Firebase bundles services — Auth, Firestore, Cloud Messaging, Remote Config, and more — that all evolve on their own schedules. A Firebase SDK major version bump can change security rules behavior, modify authentication flows, and alter Firestore query semantics in a single update.

Firebase deprecated the legacy FCM API and we didn't update our server keys in time. Push notifications stopped working for 50k users on a Friday afternoon. The deprecation notice was in a release note from six months ago.

Mobile developer at a consumer app company

Manual monitoring vs APIDrift

Without APIDrift

  • Check frequency

    When you remember

  • Change classification

    Read every line yourself

  • Alert timing

    Days or weeks late

  • Team visibility

    Tribal knowledge

  • Setup time

    Bookmarks, RSS, custom scripts

With APIDrift

  • Check frequency

    Every 6 hours, automatically

  • Change classification

    AI-powered severity & type tagging

  • Alert timing

    Same-day smart digests

  • Team visibility

    Shared watchlist & history

  • Setup time

    One click, 30 seconds

What APIDrift tracks for Firebase

Cloud Messaging changes

FCM API deprecations, payload format changes, and delivery behavior modifications

Authentication updates

Sign-in method changes, identity platform migrations, and security rules behavior updates

Firestore & RTDB changes

Query behavior modifications, index requirement changes, and security rules syntax updates

Source:HTML scrapingScraped from the Firebase release notes at firebase.google.com/support/releases

How it works

1

Add Firebase to your watchlist

One click. No config needed.

2

We scrape & diff every 6 hours

AI classifies each change by type and severity.

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Get smart digests

Email, Slack, or webhook — your choice.

Example: What an alert looks like

Deprecation

Legacy FCM HTTP API deprecated — migrate to FCM v1 API by 2026-06-20

The legacy FCM server endpoints (fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send) are deprecated. Migrate to the FCM v1 API using OAuth 2.0 credentials. Legacy endpoints will return errors after June 20, 2026.

Breaking

Firebase Auth: Multi-factor authentication now required for admin SDK token verification

Admin SDK token verification now includes MFA status in decoded tokens. The mfa field is required in security rules that reference auth.token.

This is a static preview — not live data.

Frequently asked questions

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