- Breaking changes: batch processor telemetry no longer emitted at "basic" level and several deprecated modules, methods, and test helpers have been removed.
- New features: service.AllowNoPipelines feature gate enables starting the Collector without pipelines; confmap merge‑append option for list merging; expvar handler added to zpages extension.
- Bug fixes and enhancements: confmap now preserves nil slices during marshal/unmarshal; service skips registering disabled process metrics; various improvements to mdatagen, componenttest, and pdata utilities.
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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.