diff --git a/cmake/CrashReporting.cmake b/cmake/CrashReporting.cmake
index 6f9cf4849..9490cd625 100644
--- a/cmake/CrashReporting.cmake
+++ b/cmake/CrashReporting.cmake
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
 #                           CI passes ON; packagers and from-source builds stay SDK-free until this
 #                           ships something real, so offline package builds never fetch the SDK)
 #   COCKATRICE_SENTRY_DSN -- Sentry DSN baked into the build (default empty = SDK init skipped at runtime)
-#   COCKATRICE_SENTRY_TAG -- sentry-native release tag to vendor via FetchContent
-#   ENABLE_SANITIZERS -- forces the sentry backend to "none" (crashpad vs ASan conflict)
 # Defines: cockatrice_target_enable_crash_reporting(<target>)
 
 option(WITH_CRASH_REPORTING "Build with crash reporting via sentry-native" OFF)
@@ -15,11 +13,6 @@ set(COCKATRICE_SENTRY_DSN
     ""
     CACHE STRING "Sentry DSN baked into the client; empty disables crash-report upload at runtime"
 )
-# Pinned stable release; tag verified at https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-native/tags.
-set(COCKATRICE_SENTRY_TAG
-    "0.17.3"
-    CACHE STRING "sentry-native release tag to vendor via FetchContent"
-)
 
 # Wire the SDK (or the no-op fallback) into a client target. Always callable: with the
 # option OFF the compile definitions below make crash_reporter.cpp compile to no-ops.
@@ -41,28 +34,6 @@ function(cockatrice_target_enable_crash_reporting _target)
 endfunction()
 
 if(WITH_CRASH_REPORTING AND WITH_CLIENT)
-  include(FetchContent)
-
-  if(ENABLE_SANITIZERS)
-    # The crash handler cannot run under ASan/UBSan, so there is no backend to capture with.
-    set(_sentry_backend "none")
-  else()
-    # Breakpad on every OS (increment 3 probe, 2026-10-14): the crashpad sources
-    # do vendor friction-free (FetchContent inits all submodules recursively by
-    # default, verified populated in a local build tree), but the crashpad backend
-    # would need its out-of-process crashpad_handler binary installed next to the
-    # exe, into the macOS bundle, and through NSIS, plus handler-path wiring and
-    # notarization care. Breakpad is in-process, needs no extra binary and no
-    # packaging on any OS sentry-native builds, so simplicity wins.
-    set(_sentry_backend "breakpad")
-  endif()
-  # FORCE so toggling ENABLE_SANITIZERS on a reused build dir cannot leave a stale backend behind.
-  set(SENTRY_BACKEND
-      "${_sentry_backend}"
-      CACHE STRING "Crash handler backend for sentry-native" FORCE
-  )
-  unset(_sentry_backend)
-
   if(NOT MSVC)
     # Symbol upload needs debug info in Release binaries: the top-level flags build GCC
     # Release as -s -O2 (stripped, no DWARF) and Clang/Apple Release as plain -O2 (no DWARF),
@@ -75,69 +46,8 @@ if(WITH_CRASH_REPORTING AND WITH_CLIENT)
     endif()
   endif()
 
-  # No Qt integration: it runs find_package(Qt6) inside the vendored build, which
-  # cannot see our thin/aqt Qt layouts (macOS CI) under foreign toolchains, and its
-  # breadcrumbs could carry unredacted log lines into native crash events that bypass
-  # before_send. Our attached redacted log preview already carries the log context.
-  set(SENTRY_INTEGRATION_QT
-      OFF
-      CACHE BOOL "Qt log-message breadcrumbs for sentry-native (off: discovery + secret surface)" FORCE
-  )
-  # The transport stays at the SDK default (curl on Apple/Linux, winhttp on Windows).
-  set(SENTRY_BUILD_TESTS
-      OFF
-      CACHE BOOL "Build sentry-native tests" FORCE
-  )
-  set(SENTRY_BUILD_EXAMPLES
-      OFF
-      CACHE BOOL "Build sentry-native examples" FORCE
-  )
-
-  fetchcontent_declare(
-    sentry
-    GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-native.git
-    GIT_TAG ${COCKATRICE_SENTRY_TAG}
-    GIT_SHALLOW TRUE
-  )
-  fetchcontent_makeavailable(sentry)
-
-  # Vendored sentry-native (and its breakpad/crashpad trees) warn under our -Wall -Wextra
-  # (e.g. breakpad's -Wmissing-field-initializers), and WARNING_AS_ERROR would fail the build
-  # on code we cannot fix. Those findings are not actionable for us, so opt the whole vendored
-  # tree out of warnings-as-errors while keeping the warnings themselves visible; our own
-  # targets keep -Werror. Interface libraries compile nothing, so they are skipped outright:
-  # an INTERFACE -Wno-error would propagate to our consumers and weaken their build.
-  function(_cockatrice_sentry_opt_out_of_werror _dir)
-    get_property(
-      _sentry_targets
-      DIRECTORY "${_dir}"
-      PROPERTY BUILDSYSTEM_TARGETS
-    )
-    foreach(_sentry_target IN LISTS _sentry_targets)
-      get_target_property(_sentry_type ${_sentry_target} TYPE)
-      if(_sentry_type STREQUAL "INTERFACE_LIBRARY")
-        continue()
-      elseif(_sentry_type MATCHES "LIBRARY|EXECUTABLE")
-        get_target_property(_sentry_imported ${_sentry_target} IMPORTED)
-        if(NOT _sentry_imported)
-          target_compile_options(${_sentry_target} PRIVATE -Wno-error)
-        endif()
-      endif()
-    endforeach()
-    get_property(
-      _sentry_subdirs
-      DIRECTORY "${_dir}"
-      PROPERTY SUBDIRECTORIES
-    )
-    foreach(_sentry_subdir IN LISTS _sentry_subdirs)
-      _cockatrice_sentry_opt_out_of_werror("${_sentry_subdir}")
-    endforeach()
-  endfunction()
-  if(NOT MSVC)
-    _cockatrice_sentry_opt_out_of_werror("${sentry_SOURCE_DIR}")
-  endif()
-
-  message(STATUS "Crash reporting: sentry-native ${COCKATRICE_SENTRY_TAG} (backend: ${SENTRY_BACKEND})")
+  find_package(sentry CONFIG REQUIRED)
+  message(STATUS "Crash reporting: sentry-native ${sentry_VERSION}")
 else()
   message(STATUS "Crash reporting: SDK not vendored "
                  "(WITH_CRASH_REPORTING=${WITH_CRASH_REPORTING}, WITH_CLIENT=${WITH_CLIENT})"
diff --git a/cockatrice/src/client/crash/crash_reporter.h b/cockatrice/src/client/crash/crash_reporter.h
index aecc6ade3..41f46c2d5 100644
--- a/cockatrice/src/client/crash/crash_reporter.h
+++ b/cockatrice/src/client/crash/crash_reporter.h
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ public:
      *
      * An envelope is a newline-separated stream of item-header-line + payload
      * pairs. The retry transport replays cached envelopes byte-for-byte
-     * (sentry-native 0.17.3 reads them raw and serializes raw envelopes back
+     * (sentry-native reads them raw and serializes raw envelopes back
      * verbatim), so appending well-formed items associates them with the event
      * already in the file; the first line (event id header) is never touched.
      *
diff --git a/vcpkg.json b/vcpkg.json
index 8c9c64161..024293d34 100644
--- a/vcpkg.json
+++ b/vcpkg.json
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     "openssl",
     "protobuf",
     "pthreads",
+	"sentry-native",
     "zlib"
   ]
 }