- Breaking change: renamed host metrics per spec and swap scraper to paging
- Added features: NO_WINDOWS_SERVICE env var check, disk/weighted I/O time metric (Linux), opencensus exporter queue retry, filter processor supports resource‑attribute filtering
- Bug fixes: corrected string conversions in fluentforward receiver and fixed Zipkin v2 translation error tag handling
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Add pkg.exporterhelper.queueBatchEnabled feature gate to enable batch settings by default.
Introduced queuebatchprocessor to replace the legacy batchprocessor, promoted memory‑limiter extension to beta stability, and marked configgrpc as stable.