- Breaking: removed legacy pdata functions and updated exemplar/value type APIs, impacting callers from v0.48.0 onward.
- Deprecations: configunmarshaler moved internal, semconv API moved, request Set* methods replaced, metric value type aliases removed, and global featuregate funcs replaced.
- Minor enhancements and bug fixes: improved config map unmarshalling, quieter collector shutdown, and fixes for pdata copying and exporter helper stop behavior.
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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.