Release Notes

  • Version 22.1.0 includes updates to the PAL SDK identifier and adds public getter functions for NonceRequest properties.

  • Version 22.0.0 introduces the GoogleAdManagerSettings class and removes the deprecated NonceRequest.omidVersion() method.

  • Version 21.0.0 increases the minimum supported Android minSdkVersion and deprecates NonceRequest.omidVersion, providing alternative methods.

  • Version 20.3.0 was a service release with no new features.

  • Version 20.2.0 increased the Android minSdkVersion to 19.
Version Release Date Notes
23.0.0 2025-12-08
  • Updates how PAL handles user privacy and data usage by adding the ConsentSettings.Builder.forceLimitedAds property and removing the existing ConsentSettings.Builder.allowStorage property. For more information about this change, see Limited ads and first party identifier settings.
  • Adds support for reading Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) data from the device to determine user consent for local storage.
  • Adds support for detecting invalid traffic in programmatic limited ads.
  • Adds app desugaring as a requirement for apps integrating the PAL SDK. Apps without desugaring enabled won't build with the current or future PAL versions. To enable app desugaring, see Add the Android PAL SDK as a library.
  • Increases the Android minSdkVersion that PAL supports to 23.
  • Adds the androidx.preference:preference library as a PAL dependency to support parsing TCF data.
22.1.0 2025-06-23
  • Updates the PAL SDK to use palsdk-%d as the identifier of generated threads to help memory profiling.
  • Provides public getter functions for NonceRequest properties to enable unit tests to inspect NonceRequest values and make assertions.
22.0.0 2025-01-14
  • Adds the GoogleAdManagerSettings class for matching PAL first-party cookie behavior with the corresponding settings set in Google Ad Manager.
  • Removes the deprecated method NonceRequest.omidVersion().
21.0.0 2024-11-05
  • Increases the Android minSdkVersion that PAL supports to 21.
  • Deprecates NonceRequest.omidVersion. Instead, set omidPartnerName, omidPartnerVersion, and supportedApiFrameworks on the NonceRequest class.
20.3.0 2024-05-29
  • Service release, no new features.
20.2.0 2023-11-02
  • Increases the Android minSdkVersion that PAL supports to 19.
20.1.1 2023-10-12
  • Adds improvements to PAL error logging for better debugging.
20.1.0 2023-08-16
  • Adjusts the log level priority from ERROR to INFO for nonfatal messages.
20.0.1 2022-08-16
  • Fixes default values for Android TV initialization.
20.0.0 2022-07-07
19.0.0 2022-03-16
  • Adds the NonceManager.sendAdTouch(), NonceManager.sendPlaybackStart(), and NonceManager.sendPlaybackEnd() methods.
  • Deprecates the NonceManager.sendTouch() method in favor of the NonceManager.sendAdTouch() method.
  • Deprecates the NonceManager.sendAdImpression() method in favor of the NonceManager.sendPlaybackStart() and NonceManager.sendPlaybackEnd() method calls.
18.0.0 2022-01-11
17.1.2 2021-08-18
17.1.1 2021-07-08
  • Service release; no new features.
17.1.0 2021-02-04
  • Changes the default behavior of the SDK by not including advertising identifiers without user consent.
  • Adds the new ConsentSettings API which allows advertising identifiers to be used. This API informs PAL that appropriate consent has been gathered and the publisher wishes to enable advertising identifiers. If using this in compliance with IAB TCFv2, then the publisher should determine consent by integrating with a Consent Management Provider (CMP). For more information on integration with IAB TCF v2.0 please see this Ad Manager help article .
  • Creating a new instances of the NonceLoader will now reset the correlator ID. Previously the correlator ID would remain constant.
17.0.7 Deprecated 2021-01-21
  • Deprecated release. Please use v17.1.0 or higher.
17.0.5 2020-07-08
  • Fixed a bug where the PAL nonce would fail to be generated if the first attempt occurred while offline.
  • Fixed an issue where non-valid correlator values could be generated by the SDK.
17.0.3 2020-02-04
  • Service release; no new features.
17.0.2 2019-10-01
  • Service release; no new features.
17.0.0 2019-08-22
  • Replaced NonceGenerator with NonceLoader, NonceManager, and NonceRequest.
  • Play Services PAL no longer requires a specific version of Play Services Ads.
16.3.4 2018-09-07
  • Initial release.