diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/Config.kt b/buildSrc/src/main/java/Config.kt
index a08e9c7b8..92ac33ad2 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/Config.kt
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/Config.kt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 object Config {
-    val kotlinVersion = "1.3.60"
+    val kotlinVersion = "1.3.61"
     val kotlinStdLib = "stdlib-jdk8"
 
     object BuildPlugins {
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ object Config {
     object Libs {
         val appCompat = "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0"
         val timber = "com.jakewharton.timber:timber:4.7.1"
-        val gson = "com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.6"
+        // only bump gson if https://github.com/google/gson/issues/1597 is fixed
+        val gson = "com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.5"
         val leakCanary = "com.squareup.leakcanary:leakcanary-android:2.0-beta-4"
     }
 
diff --git a/sentry-android-core/proguard-rules.pro b/sentry-android-core/proguard-rules.pro
index b68c4010d..960344ded 100644
--- a/sentry-android-core/proguard-rules.pro
+++ b/sentry-android-core/proguard-rules.pro
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # Gson specific classes
 -dontwarn sun.misc.**
 -keep class com.google.gson.** { *; }
-#-keep class com.google.gson.stream.** { *; }
+-keep class sun.misc.Unsafe { *; }
 
 # Application classes that will be serialized/deserialized over Gson
 -keep class io.sentry.core.** { *; }
@@ -30,4 +30,9 @@
   @com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName <fields>;
 }
 
+# Keep jetbrains annotations
+-keep @interface com.jakewharton.nopen.annotation.** { *; }
+-keep @interface org.jetbrains.annotations.** { *; }
+
+
 ##---------------End: proguard configuration for Gson  ----------
diff --git a/sentry-android-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/android/core/UnknownPropertiesTypeAdapterFactory.java b/sentry-android-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/android/core/UnknownPropertiesTypeAdapterFactory.java
index 078f518f9..083c3f1a2 100644
--- a/sentry-android-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/android/core/UnknownPropertiesTypeAdapterFactory.java
+++ b/sentry-android-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/android/core/UnknownPropertiesTypeAdapterFactory.java
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ public void write(final JsonWriter out, final T value) throws IOException {
     public T read(final JsonReader in) {
       // In its simplest solution, we can just collect a JSON tree because its much easier to
       // process
-      JsonElement jsonElement = JsonParser.parseReader(in);
+      JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();
+      JsonElement jsonElement = parser.parse(in);
 
       if (jsonElement == null || jsonElement.isJsonNull()) {
         return null;