- Breaking changes: exporterhelper removes deprecated sending queue::blocking options and changes QueueBatchEncoding interface; configgrpc/confighttp now return struct configs; deprecated semconv package removed.
- Features & enhancements: added sampler and limits under service::telemetry::traces; exporterhelper can preserve request span context and client info in persistent queues (feature gate); new helper methods and Equal implementations for pd...
- Bug fixes: corrected optional field copying in pdata; fixed internal log sampling counter allocation and OTLP log export; confmap now distinguishes empty vs nil values during marshaling.