Firebase Admin Python SDK v2.5.0

• A new Firestore API that enables access to Cloud Firestore databases.

Firebase Admin Python SDK v2.4.0

• The db.Reference class now has a get_if_changed() method, which retrieves a database value only if the value has changed since last read.
• The options dictionary passed to initialize_app() function can now contain an httpTimeout option, which sets the timeout (in seconds) for outbound HTTP connections started by the SDK.

Firebase Admin Python SDK v2.3.0

Firebase Database

• You can now get the ETag value of a database reference by passing etag=True to the get() method of a db.Reference object.
• The db.Reference class now has a set_if_unchanged() method, which you can use to write to a database location only when the location has the ETag value you specify.
• Fixed an issue with the transaction() method that prevented you from updating scalar values in a transaction.

Firebase Admin Python SDK v2.2.0

• A new Cloud Storage API that facilitates accessing Google Cloud Storage buckets using the google-cloud-storage library.

Authentication

• A new user management API that allows provisioning and managing Firebase users from Python applications. This API adds get_user(), get_user_by_email(), get_user_by_phone_number(), create_user(), update_user() and delete_dser() methods to the firebase_admin.auth

Database

• The db.Reference class now exposes a transaction() method, which can be used to execute atomic updates on database references.

Firebase Admin Python SDK v2.1.1

• Constructors of Certificate and RefreshToken credential types can now be invoked with either a file path or a parsed JSON object. This facilitates the consumption of service account credentials and refresh token credentials from sources other than the local file system.
• Better integration with the google-auth library for making authenticated HTTP requests from the SDK.

Firebase Admin Python SDK v2.1.0

• A new database API that facilitates basic data manipulation operations (create, read, update and delete), and advanced queries. Currently, this API does not support realtime event listeners.

Firebase Admin Python SDK v2.0.0

• SDK has been migrated from oauth2client to the new and improved google-auth library.
• SDK now supports verifying ID tokens when initialized with application default credentials.

Firebase Admin Python SDK v1.0.0

Initial release of the Admin Python SDK. See Add the Firebase Admin SDK to your Server to get started.

Initialization

• Implemented the firebase_admin module, which provides the initialize_app() function for initializing the SDK with a credential.
• Implemented the firebase_admin.credentials module, which contains constructors for Certificate, ApplicationDefault and RefreshToken credential types.

Authentication

• Implemented the firebase_admin.auth module, which provides create_custom_token() and verify_id_token() functions for minting custom authentication tokens and verifying Firebase ID tokens.