Firebase Admin Node.js SDK v5.9.0

Firebase Cloud Messaging

• A new messaging.send() method for sending messaging messages.

Firebase Admin Node.js SDK v5.8.2

• [changed] Exposed admin.firestore.DocumentReference and admin.firestore.DocumentSnapshot types from the Admin SDK typings.
• [changed] Upgraded Firestore dependency version to 0.11.2.

Firebase Admin Node.js SDK v5.8.1

• This release upgrades the Cloud Firestore dependency version from 0.10.0 to 0.11.1, which includes several bug fixes in Cloud Firestore.

Firebase Admin Node.js SDK v5.8.0

Initialization

• The admin.initializeApp() method can now be invoked without any arguments. This will initialize an app using Google Application Default Credentials, and other AppOptions loaded from the FIREBASE_CONFIG environment variable.

Authentication

• Upgraded the jsonwebtoken library to 8.1.0.

Firebase Admin Node.js SDK v5.7.0

Authentication

• A new revokeRefreshTokens() method for revoking refresh tokens issued to a user.
• The verifyIdToken() method now accepts an optional checkRevoked argument, which can be used to check if a given ID token has been revoked.

Firebase Admin Node.js SDK v5.6.0

• A new admin.instanceId() API that facilitates deleting instance IDs and associated user data from Firebase projects.
• Updated the TypeScript typings for admin.AppOptions to reflect the introduction of the projectId option.
• Removed some unused third party dependencies.
• Updated @google-cloud/firestore dependency to latest.

Firebase Admin Node.js SDK v5.5.1

Cloud Firestore

• Upgraded the Cloud Firestore client to the latest available version, which adds input validation to several operations, and retry logic to handle network errors.

Realtime Database

• Fixed an issue in the TypeScript typings of the Realtime Database API.

Firebase Admin Node.js SDK v5.5.0

Realtime Database

• app.database() method now optionally accepts a database URL. This feature can be used to access multiple Realtime Database instances from the same app.
• Upgraded the Realtime Database client to the latest available version.

Cloud Firestore

• Upgraded the Cloud Firestore client to the latest available version.

Firebase Admin Node.js SDK v5.4.3

• Fixed a regression in module loading that prevented using the Admin SDK in environments like AWS Lambda. This regression was introduced in the 5.4.0 release, which added a new dependency to Firestore and gRPC. This fix lazily loads Firestore and gRPC, thus enabling Admin SDK usage in the affected environments as long as no explicit attempts are made to use the Firestore API.

Firebase Admin Node.js SDK v5.4.2

• Upgraded the Cloud Firestore client dependency to 0.8.2, which resolves an issue with saving objects with nested document references.