- Breaking API changes: replace CreateParams with CreateSettings across extensions, rename several functions/types, remove unused packages and deprecated obsreceiver helpers, and migrate parsers to internal packages.
- New features: introduce AppSettings, model translation/encoding interfaces, otlpjson serializer, initial pdatagrcp implementation, markdown generation support, exporter queue overflow telemetry, and refactor client authentication extensi...
- Documentation and maintenance: add doc.go files for consumer packages, automate doc updates on release, enable Dependabot for GitHub Actions, remove proto dependency in goldendataset, and fix bugs in Windows zapcore core, fileexporter li...
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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.