diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8372252acd5..d3be85c1f4e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 - Moved firebase-tools-ui server.js logic to fireabse-tools to run it in-memory. (#7897)
 - Updates `superstatic` to `9.1.0` (#7929).
 - Added the appdistribution:group:list and appdistribution:testers:list commands.
+- Updated the Firebase Data Connect local toolkit to v1.7.2, which includes bug fixes for `@auth` expressions that reference the `auth` variable, `Optional` arrays in Swift codegen, and updates Kotlin codegen to use fully-qualified class names everywhere. (#7968)
diff --git a/src/emulator/downloadableEmulators.ts b/src/emulator/downloadableEmulators.ts
index 5164ed97e9b..956c7fa0825 100755
--- a/src/emulator/downloadableEmulators.ts
+++ b/src/emulator/downloadableEmulators.ts
@@ -59,20 +59,20 @@ const EMULATOR_UPDATE_DETAILS: { [s in DownloadableEmulators]: EmulatorUpdateDet
   dataconnect:
     process.platform === "darwin"
       ? {
-          version: "1.7.0",
-          expectedSize: 25350912,
-          expectedChecksum: "1479411a52b689a990179c7f674362b6",
+          version: "1.7.2",
+          expectedSize: 25019136,
+          expectedChecksum: "0d94b38bd15c07ba19d5e046ada88cd3",
         }
       : process.platform === "win32"
         ? {
-            version: "1.7.0",
-            expectedSize: 25783808,
-            expectedChecksum: "fef62bf25e816aa4ba250e80050f0125",
+            version: "1.7.2",
+            expectedSize: 25441792,
+            expectedChecksum: "c6fd5c3d51933857e105b0012ec78652",
           }
         : {
-            version: "1.7.0",
-            expectedSize: 25272472,
-            expectedChecksum: "24d873457787546ca6f2470fe9ec3edd",
+            version: "1.7.2",
+            expectedSize: 24932504,
+            expectedChecksum: "d00bbb97c951eb17a48065838dc185f5",
           },
 };