- Major breaking changes: removed deprecated consumerhelper, service/defaultcomponents, and UseOpenTelemetryForInternalMetrics packages; changed pdata.Value MapVal/SliceVal behavior; updated OTLP JSON field names to “scope*” per OTLP v0.15.0.
- Extensive deprecations: replaced pdata.AttributeValue family with pdata.Value, moved MapProvider to config, and marked many pdata structs/functions, feature‑gate globals, and OTLP component helpers as deprecated.
- Enhancements and bug fixes: added semconv definitions for v1.9.0, updated OTLP to v0.15.0 with transition support, fixed missing semconv files, Windows feature‑gate flag handling, and corrected Semantic Convention schema URLs.