Identity Platform release notes

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

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December 03, 2024

The Identity Platform integration with reCAPTCHA Enterprise API now supports bot protection and SMS toll fraud protection for SMS-based flows on iOS platforms.

October 31, 2024

Support for SMS-based authentication flows in the Identity Platform integration with reCAPTCHA Enterprise API is now in Preview. In addition, the integration now supports reCAPTCHA's SMS toll fraud protection and the ability to bring your own reCAPTCHA keys.

For more information, see the following pages:

September 30, 2024

Custom organization policies for Identity Platform are generally available (GA). You can use custom organization policies to allow or deny specific operations on Identity Platform resources for the security, compliance, or governance requirements of your application.

For more information, see Use custom organization policies.

April 15, 2024

Automatic, anonymous account deletion is now enforced for all projects that have autodelete_anonymous_users enabled.

September 21, 2023

Time-based one-time password (TOTP) as an additional multi-factor authentication option is generally available (GA).

September 15, 2023

Email enumeration protection is enabled by default for all new projects. With email enumeration protection enabled, the Firebase Auth SDK method fetchSignInMethodsForEmail returns null, for added security.

May 30, 2023

Password policies are generally available (GA).

May 08, 2023

Firebase App Check is available in Preview.

April 19, 2023

Time-based one-time password (TOTP) as an additional multi-factor authentication option is available in Preview.

April 13, 2023

Added SDK support to meet Apple's user deletion requirements.

March 28, 2023

Play Integrity is now supported for client-side authentication on Android applications. For more information, see Authenticate with Firebase on Android using a Phone Number.

March 14, 2023

Identity Platform has updated several quotas. View the updated quotas from Identity Toolkit API > Quotas on the APIs & Services page in the Google Cloud console.

September 26, 2022

Added the ability to set up SMS region policies to help protect your applications from potential SMS abuse. For more information, see Using SMS regions to protect your app from SMS abuse.

July 11, 2022

Activity logging can now be enabled on a per-tenant basis. The feature is generally available.

June 29, 2022

Identity Platform Web v9 modular SDK is now available at the GA stage. For details, see Upgrade to the modular Web SDK (v9) .

May 01, 2022

Session cookies are now supported for tenants. The feature is generally available.

September 28, 2021

Facebook Limited Login is supported at the GA stage.

June 30, 2021

May 11, 2021

Support for OIDC sign in and management for Identity Platform is released at the GA stage.

December 09, 2020

Blocking functions are released at the GA stage.

Blocking functions let you execute custom code that modifies the result of a user registering or signing in to your app.

October 14, 2020

Sign in with Apple is now supported.

August 14, 2020

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is now GA!

November 18, 2019

Multi-tenancy for Identity Platform is now GA!

April 09, 2019

Identity Platform is now GA!

December 13, 2018

Welcome to the Identity Platform beta!