Right now, hundreds of repositories have an open Dependabot pull request titled "Bump firebase-admin from 13.x to 14.x" . On October 28, 2026, GitHub search showed 388 of them still open from v13, and 260 from v12.

Many of them are stuck for a reason that has nothing to do with your code: npm install fails before your tests even run.

npm error code ERESOLVE npm error Could not resolve dependency: npm error peer firebase-admin@"^8.0.0 || ^9.0.0 || ^10.0.0 || ^11.0.0 || ^12.0.0 || ^13.0.0" from [email protected]

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I ran into this while testing a migration tool on 17 active open-source projects that had this exact Dependabot PR open: 9 of them could not install the upgraded dependencies at all. Two packages from the Firebase ecosystem were responsible.

Blocker 1: firebase-functions older than 7.3.0

firebase-functions only added firebase-admin 14 to its peer range in 7.3.0 (released July 16, 2026).…