Bugsnag NDK 16 KB page-size fix: upgrade to 6.6.0

Artifact com.bugsnag:bugsnag-plugin-android-ndk · measured 2026-10-01 · all libraries

fixed

Bugsnag NDK versions up to and including 6.5.0 that we measured ship 4 KB-aligned native libraries (offending for Google Play's 16 KB page-size requirement). The first measured aligned stable version is 6.6.0; the newest measured, 6.27.1, is aligned.

Caveats

Sampled, not exhaustive: 39 of 112 published versions were measured with native code; unmeasured versions in between are unknown.

Measured evidence

	Version	Library file	p_align	File date	Source
Last offending	`6.5.0`	`jni/arm64-v8a/libbugsnag-ndk.so`	4 KB (2^12)	Wed, 15 May 2024 13:36:04 GMT	artifact
First aligned	`6.6.0`	`jni/arm64-v8a/libbugsnag-ndk.so`	16 KB (2^14)	Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:16:09 GMT	artifact

p_align is the smallest PT_LOAD segment alignment of the ELF. 16 KB-compatible needs at least 16384 (2^14). Method: min PT_LOAD p_align of arm64-v8a/x86_64 .so inside the published AAR/JAR; aligned = >=16384 for every lib. Dates are repository file times, not official release dates.

Offending versions measured (26)

4.17.0, 4.17.1, 4.17.2, 4.18.0, 4.18.0-beta01, 4.19.0, 4.19.1, 4.20.0, 4.22.2, 5.0.2, 5.2.3, 5.5.1, 5.7.0, 5.9.2, 5.10.1, 5.14.0, 5.19.0, 5.22.0, 5.23.0, 5.27.0, 5.28.4, 5.31.1, 5.32.2, 6.2.0, 6.4.0, 6.5.0

Native libraries seen: libbugsnag-ndk.so.

The Gradle change

implementation("com.bugsnag:bugsnag-plugin-android-ndk:6.6.0")

an aligned version, lowest measured above the last offending one; newer measured versions are aligned too (latest 6.27.1). Check: ./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency bugsnag-plugin-android-ndk --configuration releaseRuntimeClasspath

Confirm what Gradle actually resolves, since another dependency may pull an older version:

./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency bugsnag-plugin-android-ndk --configuration releaseRuntimeClasspath

Re-verify it yourself

Download the artifact and run the free checker (check16k.py, Python 3, no dependencies):

curl -LO https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/bugsnag/bugsnag-plugin-android-ndk/6.6.0/bugsnag-plugin-android-ndk-6.6.0.aar
python3 check16k.py bugsnag-plugin-android-ndk-6.6.0.aar

Exit 0 = aligned, 1 = an unaligned library found. Better still, run it on your final .aab/.apk.

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