Release Notes

Version	Release Date	Notes
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	Adds the `PlatformSignalCollector` class. `PlatformSignalCollector` is an adapter for providing platform-specific signals to PAL. Adds `NonceRequest.Builder.platformSignalCollector()`. `NonceRequest.Builder.platformSignalCollector()` sets the `PlatformSignalCollector` when building a `NonceRequest`.
19.0.0	2022-03-16	Adds `NonceManager.playbackStart()` and `NonceManager.playbackEnd()`. Deprecates `NonceManager.sendAdImpression()` in favor of the `NonceManager.playbackStart()` and `NonceManager.playbackEnd()` method calls.
18.0.0	2022-01-11	Adds `ConsentSettings.Builder.directedForChildOrUnknownAge()` to indicate whether the ad request will be directed to a child or a user of unknown age. The default value is `false`. Adds permission for accessing the Advertising ID. To learn more about the `AD_ID` permission declaration, including how to disable it, refer to this Play Console Help article. Adds support for the app set ID for use cases such as reporting and fraud prevention.
17.1.2	2021-08-18	Adds the following methods to `NonceRequest.Builder`: `sessionId` `supportedApiFrameworks`
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.