Sentry NDK 16 KB page-size fix: upgrade to 7.18.0
Artifact io.sentry:sentry-android-ndk · measured 2026-10-01 · all libraries
fixed
Sentry NDK versions up to and including 7.17.0 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 7.18.0; the newest measured, 8.59.0, is no-native-64bit.
- NATIVES MOVED (latest has no 64-bit .so). Successor artifacts measured 2026-10-01 (data/successors-2026-10-01.json): sentry-native-ndk:0.16.6 aligned; sentry-native-ndk:0.17.1 aligned. Only these versions were measured; any other successor version is UNVERIFIED. Which sentry-native-ndk version sentry-android-ndk 8.59.0 pulls was NOT read (mirror lagged); 8.58.0 pulls 0.16.6, measured aligned
- Sampled, not exhaustive: 27 of 303 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 | 7.17.0 | jni/arm64-v8a/libsentry-android.so | 4 KB (2^12) | Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:12:55 GMT | artifact |
| First aligned | 7.18.0 | jni/arm64-v8a/libsentry-android.so | 16 KB (2^14) | Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:47:12 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 (24)
2.0.0-alpha04, 2.0.0-alpha05, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.1.0-alpha.1, 2.1.0-alpha.2, 2.1.0-beta.1, 2.1.0-beta.2, 2.1.4, 3.1.0, 4.3.0, 5.1.0-beta.3, 5.2.0, 5.5.3, 6.0.0-alpha.1, 6.1.1, 6.5.0-beta.1, 6.11.0, 6.19.1, 6.31.0, 7.4.0, 7.12.0, 7.16.0-alpha.1, 7.17.0
Native libraries seen: libsentry-android.so, libsentry.so.
The Gradle change
implementation("io.sentry:sentry-android-ndk:7.18.0")an aligned version, lowest measured above the last offending one; newer measured versions are aligned too (latest 8.59.0, which ships no 64-bit .so: natives removed or moved, measure the separate artifact). Check: ./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency sentry-android-ndk --configuration releaseRuntimeClasspath // NATIVES MOVED (latest has no 64-bit .so). Successor artifacts measured 2026-10-01 (data/successors-2026-10-01.json): sentry-native-ndk:0.16.6 aligned; sentry-native-ndk:0.17.1 aligned. Only these versions were measured; any other successor version is UNVERIFIED. Which sentry-native-ndk version sentry-android-ndk 8.59.0 pulls was NOT read (mirror lagged); 8.58.0 pulls 0.16.6, measured aligned
Confirm what Gradle actually resolves, since another dependency may pull an older version:
./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency sentry-android-ndk --configuration releaseRuntimeClasspathRe-verify it yourself
Download the artifact and run the free checker (check16k.py, Python 3, no dependencies):
curl -LO https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/sentry/sentry-android-ndk/7.18.0/sentry-android-ndk-7.18.0.aar
python3 check16k.py sentry-android-ndk-7.18.0.aarExit 0 = aligned, 1 = an unaligned library found. Better still, run it on your final .aab/.apk.
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