- Breaking: renamed Push functions for consistent signal handling and removed custom init/stop in scrapers, switching to start/shutdown.
- Feature: changed default OTLP/gRPC port to 4317 (with legacy 55680 support), added Kafka metrics exporter (OTLP protobuf), new scraperhelper and componenthelper packages, TLS verification skip, and non‑nullable metric and slice types.
- Bugfix: made InstrumentationLibrary non‑nullable, fixed set flag handling for empty configs, and improved slice handling with non‑pointer AnyValue.
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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.