- Removed legacy base factories and old interfaces, introducing breaking API changes.
- Added new components: Prometheus remote write exporter (WIP) and Kafka receiver for trace ingestion, plus several feature enhancements like configurable Kafka payload encoding and new HTTP client headers.
- Fixed multiple bugs including filter processor behavior, exporter panics, and metrics duplication, and introduced new self‑observability metrics.
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