- Breaking changes: metrics now have an otelcol prefix; ballast extension removed and related APIs altered; several deprecated config and component APIs deleted, affecting custom client transport and auth signatures.
- New components and enhancements: added go.opentelemetry.io/collector/client module and componentprofiles; exporterhelper now tags queue size metrics by data type; HTTP/HTTPS providers now validate URIs; various docs and factory function ...
- Bug fixes and deprecations: fixed env var expansion bugs, updated internal telemetry units, corrected exporterhelper mutation handling; deprecated Host.GetFactory and experimental comments removed.
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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.