From 42ac73ac15c485d2559aec297753145f30c65653 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VinayGuthal <4609544+VinayGuthal@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 18:14:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Create release config for m180_1

---
 release.json        |  7 +++++++
 release_report.json | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 release_report.md   | 11 +++++++++++
 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 release.json
 create mode 100644 release_report.json
 create mode 100644 release_report.md

diff --git a/release.json b/release.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b07d2724076
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+    "name": "m180_1",
+    "libraries": [
+        ":firebase-appdistribution",
+        ":firebase-appdistribution-api"
+    ]
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/release_report.json b/release_report.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0864e73a09c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release_report.json
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+    "changesByLibraryName": {
+        "firebase-appdistribution": [
+            {
+                "commitId": "aab9a907dd077606a84cbfefa2b6d96224696066",
+                "prId": "8155",
+                "author": "Lee Kellogg",
+                "message": "Use String.format in cases where firebase-vendor plugin transforms hardcoded strings (#8155)\n\nStarting with `16.0.0-beta18`, the vendor plugin is renaming strings in\nthe app distro SDK:\n\n```\n> Task :firebase-appdistribution:releaseVendorTransform\n...\nChanged \".FirebaseAppDistributionFileProvider\" -> \"com.google.firebase.appdistribution.impl..FirebaseAppDistributionFileProvider\"\nChanged \".apk\" -> \"com.google.firebase.appdistribution.impl..apk\"\n...\n```\n\nThis is causing the SDK functionality to fail due to malformed strings:\nhttps://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/issues/8136\n\nI don't know the root cause, but this does fix the issue.",
+                "commitLink": "https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/commit/aab9a907dd077606a84cbfefa2b6d96224696066",
+                "prLink": "https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/pull/8155"
+            }
+        ],
+        "firebase-appdistribution-api": []
+    },
+    "changedLibrariesWithNoChangelog": []
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/release_report.md b/release_report.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3c57ce51469
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release_report.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Release Report
+## firebase-appdistribution
+
+* Use String.format in cases where firebase-vendor plugin transforms hardcoded strings (#8155)   
+  [pr](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/pull/8155) [commit](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/commit/aab9a907dd077606a84cbfefa2b6d96224696066)  [Lee Kellogg]
+
+## firebase-appdistribution-api
+
+
+
+## SDKs with changes, but no changelogs

From b99ce0ee6430f9add01b558a3215b64cbaef91bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vinay Guthal <vguthal@google.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 14:17:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] update change log

---
 firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md b/firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md
index 528adf32060..2b7aeac6218 100644
--- a/firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Unreleased
 
+# 16.0.0-beta19
+
+- [changed] Bumped internal dependencies.
+
 # 16.0.0-beta18
 
 - [changed] Bumped internal dependencies.

From 023127c77da3bcb0985736c94fcb7db45bc17c94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vinay Guthal <vguthal@google.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 14:32:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] update

---
 firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md b/firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md
index 2b7aeac6218..049b1d7f260 100644
--- a/firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 # Unreleased
 
-# 16.0.0-beta19
-
 - [changed] Bumped internal dependencies.
 
 # 16.0.0-beta18