Cocoapods Not Updating to Latest Version of Firebase

Question

When I run pod update, all my other pods update but Firebase only updates to 8.15.0. Firebase is currently on 10.17.0. What's the issue here?

Podfile.lock:

PODS:
 //...
  - Firebase (8.15.0):
  - GoogleMaps (7.4.0)

Podfile:

# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
platform :ios, '14.0'

target 'bottlebin' do
  # Comment the next line if you don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  use_frameworks!

  # Pods for myapp

// ... other pods

pod 'Firebase'
pod 'Firebase/Functions'
pod 'Firebase/Core'
pod 'Firebase/Auth'
pod 'Firebase/Storage'
pod 'Firebase/Database'
pod 'Firebase/DynamicLinks'
pod 'Firebase/Messaging'
pod 'FirebaseAnalytics'
pod 'FirebaseCrashlytics'
pod 'Firebase/Installations'
pod 'Firebase/AppCheck'

pod 'GeoFire', '~> 4.0'

pod 'GoogleMaps'
pod 'GooglePlaces'
pod 'GoogleSignIn'
pod 'GoogleAnalytics'
pod 'Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK'
pod 'PersonalizedAdConsent'

post_install do |installer|

    installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
      if target.respond_to?(:product_type) and target.product_type == "com.apple.product-type.bundle"
        target.build_configurations.each do |config|
            config.build_settings['CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED'] = 'NO'
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

Answer 1

GeoFire 4.x requires the Firebase version less than 9.

The change that enabled bumping To Firebase 10.x is updating the Podfile to GeoFire 5.x. Firebase 10.x supports iOS 11 and up.

https://github.com/firebase/geofire-objc/commit/5624f9cbd3771744afad889588d4b36ac6142e27