there appears to be zones issue with this release, if you look at my sample project, you will see that I had to wrap the firebase calls using ngZone to get it to work.
this.ngZone.run(() => {
if (_currentUser) {
console.log("in auth subscribe", _currentUser)
this.currentUser = _currentUser;
this.assetList = this.doShowList();
} else {
this.currentUser = null
}
this.authChecked = true;
});