Release Notes

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• PAL for Android now supports a minimum SDK version of 19.

• The SDK has been updated to enhance error logging and debugging capabilities.

• Consent settings API enables the use of advertising identifiers with user consent.

• The PlatformSignalCollector class has been introduced to provide platform-specific signals.

• NonceManager now includes playbackStart() and playbackEnd() methods for managing ad impressions.

Version	Release Date	Notes
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	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.