- Breaking: Updated Unmarshaller signatures in Kafka exporter/receiver, renamed marshall to marshal, removed componenterror.ErrAlreadyStarted/Stopped, and renamed ApplicationStartInfo to BuildInfo with field changes.
- Feature: Added logs support to Kafka exporter, introduced AppendEmpty (deprecating Append) for slices, enhanced zipkin receiver version handling, custom authenticator via component.Host, resource conversion config for prometheusremotewri...
- Bugfix: Fixed TLS handling in Jaeger receiver, zipkin JSON v2 starttime handling, prometheus exporter label drops, enabled internal queue for prometheusremotewrite, preserved instance/job labels, ensured graceful shutdown of Jaeger recei...
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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.