Firebase C++ SDK 8.3.0

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• Changes
  • General: This release adds tvOS C++ libraries that wrap the
    community-supported Firebase tvOS SDK. libs/tvos contains
    tvOS-specific libraries, and the xcframeworks directory now
    includes support for both iOS and tvOS. The following products are
    currently included for tvOS: Auth, Database, Firestore, Functions,
    Installations, Messaging, Remote Config, Storage.
  • General: When building from source, the compiler setting of
    "no exceptions" on app is PRIVATE now and will not affect any other
    targets in the build.
  • Firestore: Removed the deprecated
    Firestore::RunTransaction(TransactionFunction*) function. Please use
    the overload that takes a std::function argument instead.
  • Firestore: FieldValue::Increment functions are no longer guarded by
    the INTERNAL_EXPERIMENTAL macro.
  • Firestore: added more validation of invalid input.
  • Firestore: added an is_valid method to the public API classes that can
    be in an invalid state.

Firebase C++ SDK 8.2.0

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• Changes
  • General (Android): Updated Flatbuffers internal dependency from version
    1.9 to 1.12.
  • Firestore: Deprecated the
    Firestore::RunTransaction(TransactionFunction*) function. Please use
    the overload that takes a std::function argument instead.
  • Firestore: Removed the deprecated EventListener class.
  • Firestore: Removed the deprecated overloads of AddSnapshotListener and
    AddSnapshotsInSyncListener functions that take an EventListener*
    argument. Please use the overloads that take a std::function argument
    instead.

Firebase C++ SDK 8.1.0

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• Changes
  • Firestore: Fixed a linker error when DocumentChange::npos was used.
    (#474).
  • Firestore: Added Firestore::NamedQuery that allows reading the queries
    used to build a Firestore Data Bundle.

Firebase C++ SDK 8.0.0

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• Changes
  • Analytics: Removed SetCurrentScreen() following its removal from iOS SDK and deprecation from Android SDK. Please use LogEvent with ScreenView event to manually log screen changes.
  • General (Android): Firebase no longer supports STLPort. Please use libc++ instead.
  • General (Android): Firebase support for gnustl (also known as libstdc++) is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release. Please use libc++ instead.
  • Instance Id: Removed support for the previously-deprecated Instance ID SDK.
  • Remote Config: The previously-deprecated static methods have been removed Please use the new instance-based firebase::remote_config::RemoteConfig API.
  • Remote Config(Android): Fix for getting Remote Config instance for a specific app object (#991).
  • General (Android): Fixed a potential SIGABRT when an app was created with a non-default app name on Android KitKat (#429).
  • AdMob (iOS): Temporarily pinned AdMob dependency to a special version of the Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK Cocoapod, "7.69.0-cppsdk", to maintain compatibility with version 8.x of the Firebase iOS SDK.
  • General (iOS): A database URL is no longer required to be present in GoogleService-Info.plist when not using the Realtime Database.
  • Firestore: Added Firestore::LoadBundle to enable loading Firestore Data Bundles into the SDK cache. Firestore::NamedQuery will be available in a future release.

Firebase C++ SDK 7.3.0

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• Changes
  • General (iOS): Update dependencies.
  • General (Android): Fix a gradle error if ANDROID_NDK_HOME is not set.

Firebase C++ SDK 7.2.0

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• Changes
  • General (Android): Firebase support for STLPort is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release. Please use libc++ instead.
  • General (iOS): iOS SDKs are now built using Xcode 12.
  • General (iOS): iOS SDKs are now providing XCFrameworks instead of Frameworks.
  • Database: Fixed a potential crash that can occur as a result of a race condition when adding, removing and deleting ValueListeners or ChildListeners rapidly.
  • Database: Fixed a crash when setting large values on Windows and Mac systems (#517).
  • General: Fixed rare crashes at application exit when destructors were being executed (#345).
  • General (Android): Removed checks for Google Play services for Auth, Database, Functions and Storage as the native Android packages no longer need it. (#361).

Firebase C++ SDK 7.1.1

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Release Notes

• Changes
  • General (Android): Use non-conflicting file names for embedded resources in Android builds. This fixes segfault crashes on old Android devices (Android 5 and below).

Firebase C++ SDK 7.1.0

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Release Notes

• Changes
  • General (iOS): Re-enabled Bitcode in iOS builds (#266).
  • Auth: You can now specify a language for emails and text messages sent from your apps using UseAppLanguage() or set_language_code().
  • Firestore: Fixed partial updates in Update() with FieldValue::Delete() (firebase/quickstart-unity#882).
  • Messaging (Android): Now uses enqueueWork instead of startService. This fixes lost messages with data payloads received when the app is in the background (firebase/quickstart-unity#877).
  • Remote Config: Added firebase::remote_config::RemoteConfig class with new instance-based APIs to better manage fetching config data.
  • Remote Config: Deprecated old module-based API in favor of the new instance-based API instead.
  • Remote Config (Desktop): Fixed multiple definition of Nanopb symbols in binary SDK (#271).

Firebase C++ SDK 7.0.1

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Release Notes

• Changes
  • Installations (Android): Fixed incorrect STL variants, which fixes a linker error on Android.

Firebase C++ SDK 7.0.0

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Release Notes

• Changes
  • General (iOS): iOS SDKs are now built using Xcode 11.7.
  • General (Desktop): Windows libraries are now built using Visual Studio 2019. While VS 2019 is binary-compatible with VS 2015 and VS 2017, you must use VS 2019 or newer to link the desktop SDK. The libraries have been moved from libs/windows/VS2015 to libs/windows/VS2019 to reflect this.
  • General (Desktop): Linux libraries are now built with both the C++11 ABI and the legacy ABI. The libraries have been moved from libs/linux/${arch} to libs/linux/${arch}/legacy and libs/linux/${arch}/cxx11 to reflect this.
  • AdMob (Android): Fix a JNI error when initializing without Firebase App.
  • Analytics: Remove deprecated SetMinimumSessionDuration call.
  • Installations: Added Installations SDK. See Documentations for details.
  • Instance Id: Marked Instance Id as deprecated.
  • Messaging: Added getToken, deleteToken apis.
  • Messaging: Removed deprecated Send() function.
  • Messaging: raw_data has been changed from a std::string to a std::vector<uint8_t>, and can now be populated.
  • Firestore: Firestore C++ is now in Beta.
  • Firestore: Added support for Query::WhereNotEqualTo and Query::WhereNotIn.
  • Firestore: Added support for Settings::set_cache_size_bytes and Settings::cache_size_bytes.
  • Firestore: Query methods that return new Query objects are now const.
  • Firestore: Added new internal HTTP headers to the gRPC connection.
  • Firestore: Fixed a crash when writing to a document after having been offline for long enough that the auth token expired (#182).