Migrate from sentry-android 5.x to 6.0.0

• Kotlin plugin is upgraded to 1.5.

• Kotlin languageVersion is upgraded to 1.4.

• Gson is removed as a transitive dependency and vendored in the SDK.

  • Protocol classes now implement the JsonSerializable and JsonDeserializer interfaces.

• SentryOptions#shutdownTimeout is renamed to shutdownTimeoutMillis.

• Removed @Deprecated and @ApiStatus.ScheduledForRemoval methods

  • ITransaction#setRequest
  • ITransaction#getRequest
  • ITransaction#getContexts
  • SentryBaseEvent#getOriginThrowable
  • SentryOptions#getCacheDirSize
  • SentryOptions#setCacheDirSize
  • SentryOptions#isEnableSessionTracking
  • SentryOptions#setEnableSessionTracking

• Removed unnecessary abstractions

  • IBuildInfoProvider is now BuildInfoProvider only.
  • IHandler is now MainLooperHandler only.

• ISpan now has higher precision using the System#nanoTime instead of milliseconds.

• Hints changed its type from Object to io.sentry.Hint

Old:

Sentry.captureException(RuntimeException("exception"), "myStringHint")

New:

val hints = mutableMapOf<String, Any>("myHint" to "myStringHint")
Sentry.captureException(RuntimeException("exception"), hints)

• SentryOptions#enableScopeSync is now enabled by default, to disable it, see the code snippet below.

<meta-data
  android:name="io.sentry.ndk.scope-sync.enable"
  android:value="false"
/>

• SentryOptions#sendClientReports is now enabled by default. To disable it, use the code snippet below:

<meta-data
  android:name="io.sentry.send-client-reports"
  android:value="false"
/>

Sentry Self-hosted Compatibility

• Starting with version 6.0.0 of sentry, Sentry's version >= v21.9.0 is required or you have to manually disable sending client reports via the sendClientReports option. This only applies to self-hosted Sentry. If you are using sentry.io, no action is needed.

There are more changes and refactors, but they are not user breaking changes.