Upgrading appium java client & airplane mode support

[funCoder]

I have the task of upgrading a rather old integration tests framework for mobile. It is using the following dependencies:

Selenium:

  <dependency>
  	<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
  	<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
  	<version>2.48.2</version>
  	<exclusions>
  		<exclusion>
  			<artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
  			<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
  		</exclusion>
  	</exclusions>
  </dependency>

Appium java-client:

        <dependency>
  			<groupId>io.appium</groupId>
   			<artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
   			<version>3.3.0</version>
   			<exclusions>
   				<exclusion>
   					<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
   					<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
   				</exclusion>
   			</exclusions>
   		</dependency>

Saucelabs:

       <dependency>
			<groupId>com.saucelabs</groupId>
			<artifactId>ci-sauce</artifactId>
			<version>1.113</version>
			<exclusions>
				<!-- Exclude internal sauce 'selenium-java' dependency since we have 
					it already -->
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
					<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
					<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
			</exclusions>
		</dependency>

I ran this command: mvn versions:display-dependency-updates, to try to upgrade everything but there are so many classes that are obsolete now.

My tests heavily rely on the airplane mode and network being toggled and I see that the latest java client doesn’t support this. import io.appium.java_client.NetworkConnectionSetting is no longer supported either.

I could really use help with recommendations for suitable version upgrades.

Note: As per SauceLabs documentation, it supports only version 1.5.3 of Appium. What is the best version of java-client to go along with that?