- Added Go 1.24 support and bumped the minimum Go version to 1.23 while removing several deprecated APIs (e.g., configauth.NewDefaultAuthentication, ConfigProvider interface change, extension.Settings.ModuleInfo) – breaking changes.
- Introduced a new featuregate command, sync‑disabled queue and pull‑based batcher in exporterhelper, and added the xconfmap module with Validator and Validate functions – new features/enhancements.
- Fixed multiple issues including logger attribute handling, exporterhelper undefined request access, OTLP HTTP Retry‑After handling, async queue cancellation propagation, and ensured unique module aliases – bug fixes.
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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.