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Betas, release candidates, canary releases, and stable releases

Stable releases along with any current betas and release candidates are available from this page.

Canary releases are available on ci.android.com for all supported operating systems.

Note: canaries, betas, and release candidates should not be used for production, but are a great way for you to find and report bugs early, before they make it to a stable release.

Announcements

Subscribe to the android-ndk-announce@googlegroups.com mailing list if you'd like to be notified whenever we publish a new NDK release (beta or stable).

macOS 10.15 "Catalina"

A macOS app bundle that is signed and notarized is available. Note that because only bundles may use RPATH and pass notarization, the traditional NDK package for macOS cannot be notarized. The SDK will continue to use the traditional package as the app bundle requires layout changes that would make it incompatible with Android Studio. The NDK is not quarantined when it is downloaded via the SDK manager, so is currently allowed by Gatekeeper. The SDK manager is currently the most reliable way to get the NDK for macOS.

Release Schedule

The NDK releases on a roughly quarterly basis. One release a year is designated as a Long Term Support (LTS) release that will receive backports until the next LTS is released. Each version is first released as a beta and then a release candidate before being shipped to stable. Multiple betas and release candidates are a possibility if the first beta does not meet our promotion criteria, but there will always be at least one of each. For details, see NDK Release Process.

NDK r26 (LTS)

NDK r26 is the LTS release that will ship in 2023. Due to bandwidth constraints there are no major releases planned between r25 and the 2023 LTS. r25 is the 2022 LTS so it will be supported at least until r26 ships.

Release Expected Release Date
Beta 1 Released!
RC 1 Released!
Release September 2023

Supported Downloads

Current LTS Release

r25c Changelog

android {
    ndkVersion "25.2.9519653"
}
Platform Package Size (Bytes) SHA1 Checksum
Windows android-ndk-r25c-windows.zip 467520926 18c4a3cd108916f553b1bedad2672f2c6cd85a10
macOS android-ndk-r25c-darwin.dmg 1270899473 effebe35c4f32608c20460ca7bcc4278203ba1f1
Linux android-ndk-r25c-linux.zip 531118193 53af80a1cce9144025b81c78c8cd556bff42bd0e

Current beta release

r26 Changelog

android {
    ndkVersion "26.0.10636728-rc1"
}
Platform Package Size (Bytes) SHA1 Checksum
Windows android-ndk-r26-rc1-windows.zip 664889050 d4f4aa8a863e6e7cc0c433f1ecd8a304da4848a7
macOS android-ndk-r26-rc1-darwin.dmg 1655325328 2d95e41291d059585cd1b76ddfd8c68e39d1537c
Linux android-ndk-r26-rc1-linux.zip 668698776 6ec8c08204409fea4853bf0317660caadabfc8b0