Release 4.0.0

[pmathew92]

⚠️ BREAKING CHANGES

• Update the Min SDK version for the Auth0.Android SDK 26 #953 (utkrishtsahu)
• breaking: removed the deprecated MFA APIs #947 (pmathew92)
• breaking: Remove the Management API support #937 (pmathew92)
• breaking: Moved the useDPoP method in the WebAuthProvider class to the login builder class #914 (pmathew92)
• breaking: Removed the PasskeyProvider and the PasskeyManager class #909 (pmathew92)
• breaking : Remove redundant constructors from SecureCredentialsManager #961 (pmathew92)

Added

• feat: Add clearAll() API to credentials manager #951 (pmathew92)
• feat: Add SSOCredentialsDeserializer for proper JSON deserialization of SSOCredentials #931 (pmathew92)
• feat: Add Storage.removeAll(), default minTTL of 60s #918 (utkrishtsahu)
• feat: Add support for ephemeral session for chrome custom tabs #916 (pmathew92)

Fixed

• fix: Handle configuration changes during WebAuth flow to prevent memory leak #941 (utkrishtsahu)

Changed

• refactor: Refactor DefaultClient from constructor-based to Builder pattern for configurable HTTP client options #910 (utkrishtsahu)
• update: Gradle AGP 8 upgrade #900 (pmathew92)
• update: Update dependencies #908 (utkrishtsahu)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Published the 4.0.0 release notes, including breaking changes, new additions, fixes, and updates.
  • Updated installation instructions to reference the stable 4.0.0 release.

• Release

  • Promoted version 4.0.0 from beta to the stable release.

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📒 Files selected for processing (3)

• .version
• CHANGELOG.md
• README.md

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The project version and README dependency are updated to 4.0.0, and CHANGELOG.md gains the dated 4.0.0 release entry.

Changes

Release metadata

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update 4.0.0 release metadata .version, CHANGELOG.md, README.md	Sets the release version to 4.0.0, documents the release, and updates the Gradle dependency example.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• auth0/Auth0.Android#993: Updates the same release metadata and dependency version surfaces.
• auth0/Auth0.Android#1007: Performs a similar release-version update across the same files.

Suggested labels: documentation, tiny

Suggested reviewers: utkrishtsahu, sanchitmehtagit, nandanprabhu

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main change: the 4.0.0 release.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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• Create PR with unit tests
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