Components

Build & Tooling

• ✨ Migrate publishing to Maven Central Portal (#9054 - @sarahchen6)

Trace context propagation

• 🐛 Drop Baggage when TracePropagationBehaviorExtract=IGNORE (#9052 - @mhlidd)
• 🐛 Fix ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in PercentEscaper (#9050 - @mhlidd)

Instrumentations

Akka instrumentation

• 🐛 Fix NPE in akka-http and pekko-http integrations (#9049 - @mcculls)