- Breaking change: confmap now throws an error for URIs with an invalid scheme.
- Deprecations: featuregate APIs Gate.RemovalVersion and WithRegisterRemovalVersion are deprecated; new gate lifetime and deprecated stage concepts added.
- Enhancements & bugfixes: batchprocessor supports zero timeout, mTLS client CA reload on change, nested URI support, richer logging exporter counters, stable connector featuregate, and obsreport corrected a failed‑request counter bug.