Is the Sentry SDK backwards compatible?

[Dongw1126]

I can't find any compatibility documentation between Sentry SDK and Self-Hosted Server versions.
Is the Sentry SDK backwards compatible?

[lforst]

Hi, right now the most important Sentry JS SDK compatibility requirement with Self-Hosted is that SDK versions >=7 (including 8) require version 20.6.0 of Self-Hosted Sentry.

[Dongw1126]

Thank you, but I wish there was a document that could check backwards compatibility. Sentry SDK documentation is written based on the latest version, but for some companies, the version of the self-hosted installed on-premise may not keep up with the latest version due to security requirements.

[sree-warrier]

Is there any documentation for checking the compatibility with self-hosted sentry version with the SDK version.

We were trying to use sentry java latest version 7.14.0 and we are running 23.11.0 self hosted sentry, but it would be helpful if we can get a doc having SDK version support w.rt to self hosted sentry version

[lforst]

Generally speaking we only deprecate self-hosted versions in majors of the JavaScript SDK, but since this is the javascript repo and not java I'll let @adinauer chime in.

[adinauer]

Hey @sree-warrier, the Java SDK has a minimum required version of the backend for self hosting which we try and stick to for a major version. For 7.x the minimum version of Sentry is 22.12.0. You can find the required version in the changelog, on the major release entries.