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Flutter updates required to remediate the eMudhra certificate compromise

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Google says the private keys for several intermediate CA certificates issued by eMudhra were compromised and revoked, and it found out on October 19, 2026. Flutter, Dart, Cloud Firestore SDKs (Apple, Flutter, Unity, C++) and the Firebase App Distribution Gradle plugin trust a compiled-in root bundle, so OS and browser blocklists don't protect them. Developers must upgrade (for example Dart 3.13.7, Flutter 3.47.8), rebuild, redeploy, and get users to update. Google says the backends were not affected; some claims are not independently verified.

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