## TL;DR

Issue GetStream/stream-chat-js#1725 (closed, 9 comments): The "Authenticate with Stream Chat" Firebase Extension fails to install with a Node.js 18 deprecation error. Please use the latest Node.js runtime for Cloud Functions.

## Steps

1. Issue GetStream/stream-chat-js#1725 (closed, 9 comments): The "Authenticate with Stream Chat" Firebase Extension fails to install with a Node.js 18 deprecation error. Google Cloud has decommissioned Node.js 18 runtime and no longer allows deployments using it.

2. **Error Details**
Runtime nodejs18 is decommissioned and no longer allowed. 
Please use the latest Node.js runtime for Cloud Functions.
The following Cloud Functions fail to deploy:

3. ext-auth-chat-revokeStreamUserToken
ext-auth-chat-getStreamUserToken
ext-auth-chat-deleteStreamUser
ext-auth-chat-createStreamUser

4. **Extension Information**

5. Extension Name: Authenticate with Stream...

6. The 'Authenticate with Stream Chat' Firebase Extension failing with 'Runtime nodejs18 is decommissioned' was fixed by Stream: they submitted updated extension versions, Firebase accepted them, and a user confirmed the latest version installs fine. If the extension won't install on a decommissioned runtime, update to the newest extension version rather than pinning the old one.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Google Cloud has decommissioned Node.js 18 runtime and no longer allows deployments using it. Use this skill when you run into "Firebase Extension Fails to Deploy - Node.js 18 Runtime Deprecated".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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