- Add new configauth and perfcounters packages and enable OTLP metrics and trace receivers by default, introducing new components for auth settings and host metrics collection
- Enhance processors and receivers with memory‑limiter percentages, host‑metrics label filters, cloud.provider conventions, attribute‑processor log support, SpanID type, combined batch handling in tailsampling, pdata usage in filter proces...
- Fix multiple issues: improved Prometheus receiver messages, custom traceid serialization, removal of redundant nil resources in OpenCensus translation, Windows pagefile usage reporting, and Prometheus SD config parsing
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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.