- Added telemetry.newPipelineTelemetry feature gate, metric view config, and exporterhelper enhancements for configurable batching, wait‑for‑result, and byte‑sizer support.
- Introduced breaking changes: telemetry.disableAddressFieldForInternalTelemetry now beta and ignores deprecated address, removed deprecated fields from exporterbatch, and altered otlp receiver/exporter config handling.
- Deprecated numerous exporterhelper and exporterbatch config types, moved queue interface internally, and fixed exporterhelper start order; noted a known ~0.5 MB per component memory increase.
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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.