• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.44.0
• Deprecate otelcol status messages (#733, @pavolloffay)
• Make sure correct version of operator-sdk is always used (#728, @pavolloffay)
• Storing upgrade status into events (#707, @yuriolisa)
• Bump default java auto-instrumentation version to 1.11.1 (#731, @pavolloffay)
• Add status fields for instrumentation kind (#717, @frzifus)
• Add appProtocol for otlp and jaeger receiver parsers (#704, @binjip978)
• Add SPLUNK_ env prefix support to Instrumentation kind (#709, @elvis-cai)
• Fix logger in instrumentation webhook (#698, @pavolloffay)