--- title: Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Android release notes description: Release notes for the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Android. url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/release-notes/edot/sdks/android products: - APM Agent - Elastic Cloud Serverless - Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Android - Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry SDK - Elastic Observability applies_to: - Serverless Observability projects: Generally available - Elastic Stack: Generally available --- # Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Android release notes Review the changes, fixes, and more in each version of Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Android. To check for security updates, go to [Security announcements for the Elastic stack](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/announcements/security-announcements/31). ## 1.5.0 **Release date:** January 22, 2026 ### Fixes - Bumping upstream OTel dependencies ## 1.4.0 **Release date:** November 13, 2025 ### Features and enhancements - Bumping upstream OTel to 1.56.0: [#683](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/683) ## 1.3.1 **Release date:** October 10, 2025 ### Features and enhancements - Avoid central config spans: [#598](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/598) - Adding support to close instrumentations when the agent is closed: [#601](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/601) - Otel core update - Using upstream opamp for central config: [#622](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/622) - Removing READ_PHONE_STATE permission from manifest: [#651](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/651) ## 1.2.0 **Release date:** July 29, 2025 ### Features and enhancements - [Tech-preview] Central configuration via OpAMP: [#565](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/565) - Setting min Kotlin compatibility to 1.9: [#579](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/579) ## 1.1.0 **Release date:** June 16, 2025 ### Features and enhancements - Android instrumentation adapter: [#487](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/487) - Adding session sample rate setter: [#507](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/507) - Adding disk buffering config setter: [#509](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/509) ## 1.0.0 **Release date:** April 2, 2025 ### Features and enhancements - [Breaking] New SDK API. - [Breaking] New artifact coordinates for libs and plugins. - [Breaking] Kibana Android dashboard has changed. - Improved stability. - Support for exporting to the EDOT Collector., ## 0.20.0 **Release date:** July 29, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - Bumping upstream libs: [#340](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/340) ### Fixes - Addressing TrueTime issue #339: [#340](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/340) ## 0.19.0 **Release date:** May 30, 2024 ### Fixes - Bytecode instrumentation issue in #323: [#324](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/324) ## 0.18.0 **Release date:** May 24, 2024 ### Fixes - HTTP exporting fix: [#319](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/319) ## 0.17.0 **Release date:** May 17, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - Adding consumer R8 rules to address R8 full mode: [#309](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/309) ## 0.16.0 **Release date:** April 3, 2024 ### Fixes - Removing strict version constraint that prevented enforcing compileSdk > 33: [#292](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/292) ## 0.15.0 **Release date:** March 11, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - Added configuration to set a base OpenTelemetry Resource object: [#276](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/276) ## 0.14.0 **Release date:** February 2, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - Making OpenTelemetry Android the base project: [#268](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/268) ## 0.13.1 **Release date:** January 18, 2024 ### Fixes - Fix for #254: [#261](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/261) ## 0.13.0 **Release date:** December 12, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Making internal logs configurable: [#245](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/245) ### Fixes - Fix #242: [#244](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/244) ## 0.12.0 **Release date:** November 21, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Adding exception event to failed http responses: [#237](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/237) - Upgrading Byte Buddy to 1.14.10: [#238](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/238) ## 0.11.0 **Release date:** October 31, 2023 ### Fixes - Fix truetime duplicated classes: [#222](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/222) ## 0.10.0 **Release date:** October 27, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Adding setExportProtocol configuration to choose between HTTP and gRPC, defaulting to gRPC: [#213](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/213) - Upgrading Byte Buddy version to 1.14.9: [#207](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/207) - Setting minimum AGP version to 7.4.0 to use the Gradle plugin: [#207](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/207) - Removing Gradle’s warning on missing serverUrl param: [#209](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/209) - Adding http response content length attr to okhttp spans: [#211](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/211) - Marking okhttp spans as failed when receiving an error response code: [#212](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/212) - Bumping OTel SDK to 1.31.0 and adding new semconv dependency: [#217](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/217) ## 0.9.0 **Release date:** October 16, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Making Session ID generator configurable: [#178](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/178) - Adding sample rate support: [#179](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/179) - Adding support for AGP > 8: [#197](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/197) - Setting minimum AGP version to 7.4.0: [#197](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/197) ## 0.8.0 **Release date:** August 23, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Updating OpenTelemetry SDK to 1.27.0 where logs are stable: [#168](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/168) - Updating OpenTelemetry SDK to 1.28.0 where the new disk buffering lib is present: [#170](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/170) - Adding network connectivity attributes to logs: [#173](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/173) - Adding local persistence/caching support: [#174](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/174) ## 0.7.0 **Release date:** June 2, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Sending app’s versionCode in the `service.build` attribute: [#153](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/153) - Sending app’s lifecycle events: [#159](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/159) - Adding spans, logs and metrics filtering support: [#160](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/160) ### Fixes - Fix #164: [#165](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/165) ## 0.6.0 **Release date:** April 5, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Using minSdk 24: [#149](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/149) - Making OpenTelemetry processors and exporters configurable: [#151](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/151) - Making environment name configurable at runtime: [#152](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/152) ## 0.5.0 **Release date:** April 3, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Added server ApiKey auth support: [#141](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/141) ## 0.4.0 **Release date:** March 30, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Wrapping HTTP spans: [#106](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/106) - Tracking app launch time metrics: [#110](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/110) - Added runtime configuration options: [#122](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/122) - Added central configuration [recording](https://github.com/elastic/apm/blob/main/specs/agents/mobile/configuration.md#recording-configuration) option: [#136](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-android/pull/136) ## 0.1.0 **Release date:** December 12, 2022 ### Features and enhancements - OpenTelemetry agent set up. - Automatic instrumentation of Android Activities and Fragments. - Automatic instrumentation of OkHttp client calls. - Filtering of http-related Spans