- Breaking: removed deprecated feature gates (telemetry.disableHighCardinalityMetrics, service.noopTracerProvider) and replaced ServerConfig.Endpoint with NetAddr for flexible transport configuration.
- Deprecations and renames: otlp exporter renamed to otlp grpc and otlphttp to otlp http with alias support; AddScraper deprecated in favor of AddMetricsScraper; added component type alias deprecation mechanisms via xextension and factory ...
- Features & enhancements: added profiling signal support (receiver/nop, xscraperhelper, batching); mdatagen now allows disabling metric attributes and adds display name/description in metadata.yaml; improved CLI error handling and introdu...
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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.