Release notes

This page documents production updates to Firestore. You can periodically check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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June 15, 2021

Support for Identity and Access Management custom roles.

June 14, 2021

Support for the following additional locations:

asia-southeast1 Singapore
us-west1 Oregeon
asia-east1 Taiwan

See the full list of locations.

April 13, 2021

Support for the europe-central2 (Warsaw) region.

February 25, 2021

A Firestore connector for Workflows is now available in public preview.

February 09, 2021

Firestore now offers beta support for C++ through the Firebase C++ SDK.

October 28, 2020

You can now start import and export operations from the Google Cloud Console.

September 30, 2020

Firestore now supports the not equals != and not-in query operators.

September 16, 2020

You can now use the goog-firestoremanaged billing report label to view costs related to import and export operations.

September 11, 2020

You can now view your Firestore Security Rules in the Cloud Console.

June 22, 2020

The Google Cloud console now includes a Firestore usage dashboard.

June 08, 2020

Support for the asia-southeast2 (Jakarta).

April 20, 2020

Support for us-west4 region (Las Vegas).

March 11, 2020

Support for us-west3 (Salt Lake City) and asia-northeast3 (Seoul).

November 07, 2019

Cloud Firestore now supports the in and array-contains-any query operators.

July 08, 2019

Added the Active Connections and Snapshot Listeners Cloud Firestore metrics to Stackdriver Monitoring. To learn more about using these metrics to set up dashboards and alerts, see Monitoring usage.

May 07, 2019

Cloud Firestore now supports collection group queries. A collection group consists of all collections with the same ID. By default, queries retrieve results from a single collection in your database. Use a collection group query to retrieve documents from a collection group instead of from a single collection.

April 18, 2019

Support for asia-northeast2 region (Osaka).

April 15, 2019

Support for europe-west6 region (Zürich).

March 28, 2019

You can now use the increment operation to increase or decrease the current value of a numeric field by a given amount. For more on this feature, see our announcement.

January 31, 2019

General Availability release of Cloud Firestore. The Cloud Firestore SLA is now in effect, including 99.999% availability for multi-region instances and 99.99% availability for regional instances.

Cloud Firestore now supports the following 10 additional locations:

Multi-region
- eur3 Europe
North America (regional)
- us-west2 Los Angeles
- northamerica-northeast1 Montréal
- us-east4 Northern Virginia
South America (regional)
- southamerica-east1 São Paulo
Europe (regional)
- europe-west2 London
Asia (regional)
- asia-south1 Mumbai
- asia-east2 Hong Kong
- asia-northeast1 Tokyo
Australia (regional)
- australia-southeast1 Sydney

For a full list of supported multi-regions and regions, see Cloud Firestore Locations.

October 29, 2018

We added a Cloud Firestore emulator you can use for local testing. To set up the emulator, see Testing Cloud Firestore Security Rules.

August 09, 2018

We added two new features to help you work with arrays:

Array contains queries: query for documents that contain a particular array value.
Array transforms: the arrayUnion() and arrayRemove() functions allow you to directly modify array field values.

August 08, 2018

You can now create a Cloud Firestore database in Datastore mode. Datastore mode allows you to use Cloud Datastore client libraries with an improved Cloud Firestore storage layer, removing eventual consistency limitations.

Cloud Firestore now supports the europe-west3 and us-east1 regions, see Cloud Firestore Locations.

You can now add single-field index exemptions to exempt specific fields from automatic indexing.

You can now manage your Cloud Firestore instance from the Google Cloud Platform console.

Added support for importing and exporting of documents, see Exporting and Importing Data.

June 13, 2018

Added code examples for the Ruby server client library.

May 16, 2018

Documentation updates:

New page on Cloud Firestore indexes. This page describes Cloud Firestore index types, the relationship between queries and indexes, and index merging for equality filters.
Added code examples for the C# server client library.

May 11, 2018

We raised the Cloud Firestore Security Rules limits for document access calls.

April 03, 2018

The Firebase SDK for Cloud Functions v1.0.0 is now available and introduces some breaking changes, see the Cloud Firestore section of the Firebase SDK for Cloud Functions Migration Guide.

March 29, 2018

Cloud Firestore Security Rules now support the getAfter() function. Use this function to enforce data validation for atomic operations.

February 23, 2018

New documentation page on Cloud Firestore Security Rules and queries.

This page clarifies how Cloud Firestore Security Rules evaluate query requests. Read this page to learn how to write queries that satisfy your security rules and how to write security rules based on query properties like limit and orderby.

February 08, 2018

New Cloud Firestore server client libraries:

January 18, 2018

Overhaul of the Cloud Firestore Security Rules documentation. These improved pages add more examples and give a clearer introduction to the structure of Cloud Firestore Security Rules:

January 10, 2018

Cloud Firestore Security Rules now offer the ability to limit read or write access to data based on query parameters. Learn more about query-based rules.

October 03, 2017

Beta release of Cloud Firestore.