diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index 295df65678a..5718fd629cc 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 * Allow the RTDB emulator to hot-reload rules file on changes.
 * Allows emulated Cloud Functions to talk to production RTDB/Firestore if the emulators are not running.
-* Fixes an issue where internal logs would sometimes appear in stdout.
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+* Fixes an issue where internal logs would sometimes appear in stdout.
+* Improves RTDB emulator support for JWT algorithms and arbitrary Google Cloud auth tokens.
diff --git a/src/serve/javaEmulators.ts b/src/serve/javaEmulators.ts
index 3fb61378c0a..bb65502f3f9 100644
--- a/src/serve/javaEmulators.ts
+++ b/src/serve/javaEmulators.ts
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ const EmulatorDetails: { [s in JavaEmulators]: JavaEmulatorDetails } = {
     stdout: null,
     cacheDir: CACHE_DIR,
     remoteUrl:
-      "https://storage.googleapis.com/firebase-preview-drop/emulator/firebase-database-emulator-v4.0.0.jar",
-    expectedSize: 17097803,
-    expectedChecksum: "102c8de422db81933a0f29fede5a80a0",
-    localPath: path.join(CACHE_DIR, "firebase-database-emulator-v4.0.0.jar"),
+      "https://storage.googleapis.com/firebase-preview-drop/emulator/firebase-database-emulator-v4.1.0.jar",
+    expectedSize: 17122506,
+    expectedChecksum: "4b6c494eb2711cee32c6af6cb7ecda07",
+    localPath: path.join(CACHE_DIR, "firebase-database-emulator-v4.1.0.jar"),
     namePrefix: "firebase-database-emulator",
   },
   firestore: {