- Made OTLP the default exporter for HotROD, removed Jaeger exporter support, and moved metrics endpoints to the frontend service, introducing breaking changes.
- Added default spanmetrics connector, enable‑tracing opt‑in flag, option to disable bearer‑token override in metrics store, updated Zipkin exporter, and pinned UI to version 1.33.0.
- Added logging of build/version information on startup.