- Breaking changes: removed several deprecated service config fields and pdata flag methods; replaced processorhelper/exporterhelper constructors; default TLS minimum version set to 1.2.
- Deprecations introduced for many helper APIs, flag structs, map methods, and severity constants, with new MarshalerSizer interface and JSON unmarshalling improvements.
- Bug fixes: corrected trace JSON scope attribute handling, OTLP JSON parsing, collector state after config changes, and persistent storage client shutdown.
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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.