- Add exporter in‑flight requests UpDownCounter metric to monitor concurrent export activity.
- Introduce confmap.Validator interface and Validate function for configuration validation, deprecating xconfmap.Validator.
- Fix multiple issues: request body handling and snappy decompression in confighttp, gRPC logger verbosity, HTML escaping in pdata values, Prometheus config defaults, and return a noop tracer provider when no trace processors are defined.