- Introduce groupbytrace processor and FactoryUnmarshaler support (deprecating the old way); extend fileexporter to OTLP and add an extension factory helper.
- Migrate Zipkin and Prometheus receivers/exporters to new interfaces and OTLP, sync host scraper timestamps, expose logs SeverityNumber, and add new k8s/container conventions with StartTimeMetricRegex config.
- Fix OpenCensus resource inference, Prometheus log adapter issues, and reduce frequent Windows process telemetry errors.
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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.