Firebase Apple 11.9.0

The Firebase Apple SDK (11.9.0) is now available. For more details, see
the Firebase Apple SDK release notes.

To install this SDK, see Add Firebase to your project.

What's Changed

• [Vertex AI] Public Preview: Added support for generating images using the Imagen 3 model. (#14236)
  Note: This feature is in Public Preview, which means that the it is not subject to any SLA or
  deprecation policy and could change in backwards-incompatible ways.
• [Vertex AI] Remove outdated Preview notice from README by @andrewheard in #14404
• [Vertex AI] Add internal apiVersion parameter to RequestOptions by @andrewheard in #14356
• Deprecate binary Ads distribution by @paulb777 in #14409
• [Crashlytics] enhance inline documentations by @MojtabaHs in #14413
• [Auth] Add support for upcoming Recaptcha changes by @ncooke3 in #14201
• [NFC] Update spacing in FirebaseAuth's sample app delegate by @ncooke3 in #14417
• Update to gRPC 1.69.0 by @ehsannas in #14342
• [Vertex AI] Add documentation for InlineDataPart by @andrewheard in #14416
• Carthage 11.8.0 by @paulb777 in #14419
• [Infra] Bump Auth sample app's dep. on RecaptchaEnterprise by @ncooke3 in #14418
• [Auth] Suppress deprecation build warning by @paulb777 in #14420
• Version 11.9 by @paulb777 in #14421
• Update release notes after 11.8.1 published by @paulb777 in #14426
• Restore socket rocket by @paulb777 in #14427
• Run CI with Xcode 16.2 by @paulb777 in #14429
• Update Symbol Collision test Xcode by @paulb777 in #14431
• update vertex ai sample to use gemini 2.0 flash by @thatfiredev in #14432
• Update Firestore binary deps for gRPC 1.69.0 by @paulb777 in #14438
• [Database] Mark 'FIRDataSnapshot' as Sendable by @ncooke3 in #14439
• [Vertex AI] Add Imagen warning for invalid JPEG compression quality by @andrewheard in #14440
• [Vertex AI] Update integration tests to Gemini 2.0 Flash by @andrewheard in #14441
• firestore_exceptions.h: remove dependency on absl to set FIRESTORE_HAVE_EXCEPTIONS by @dconeybe in #14442
• [VertexAI] Add support for token-based usage metrics by @rlazo in #14406
• [Vertex AI] Fix CountTokensResponse decoding by @andrewheard in #14447
• [RC] Fix a concurrency crash by @paulb777 in #14450
• [Vertex AI] Remove generateImages(prompt:gcsURI:) from public API by @andrewheard in #14452
• Firestore: Fix memory leak in Query.whereField() by @dconeybe in #14300
• [Vertex AI] Add ImagenImagesBlockedError by @andrewheard in #14456
• [Vertex AI] Add error handling for decoding ImagenInlineImage from b64 by @andrewheard in #14458
• Make suspend threads for on-demand fatal thread recording configurable by @themiswang in #14391
• [Vertex AI] Add integration tests for modality usage metrics by @andrewheard in #14446
• Migrate FCM codebase to new NSKeyedUnarchiver APIs. by @leojaygoogle in #14457
• [Release] Update unreleased CHANGELOG entries for 11.9.0 by @andrewheard in #14466
• [Functions] Pass placeholder app check tokens on error by @ncooke3 in #14467
• [Functions] Update CHANGELOG.md for App Check fix by @ncooke3 in #14471
• Analytics 11.9.0 by @pcfba in #14472
• Firestore: pin googletest to a commit that supports c++14 in cmake builds by @dconeybe in #14474
• [Auth] Compile-out recaptchaToken(...) for 1P by @andrewheard in #14477
• [Release] Update Firestore SPM binary for M160 by @andrewheard in #14485

New Contributors

• @thatfiredev made their first contribution in #14432

Full Changelog: 11.8.1...11.9.0