- Breaking changes: minimum Go version raised to 1.24, receiverhelper metrics semantics altered, and configgrpc now defaults to TCP transport.
- New features and performance tweaks: otlphttpexporter adds configurable profiles endpoint, experimental pdata memory pooling via feature gate, copy-to optimizations, refcounting for pipeline data, and other low‑level optimizations.
- Deprecations and bug fixes: Profiles.ProfilesDictionary deprecated in favor of Profiles.Dictionary; fixes include exporterhelper goroutine leak, batchprocessor UB, service endpoint handling, and nested config validation.