v0.16.0 Beta

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Rename Push functions to be consistent across signals in exporterhelper (#2203)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Change default OTLP/gRPC port number to 4317, also continue receiving on legacy port
  55680 during transition period (#2104).
• kafka exporter: Add support for exporting metrics as otlp Protobuf. (#1966)
• Move scraper helpers to its own scraperhelper package (#2185)
• Add componenthelper package to help build components (#2186)
• Remove usage of custom init/stop in scraper and use start/shutdown from component (#2193)
• Add more trace annotations, so zpages are more useful to determine failures (#2206)
• Add support to skip TLS verification (#2202)
• Expose non-nullable metric types (#2208)
• Expose non-nullable elements from slices of pointers (#2200)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Change InstrumentationLibrary to be non-nullable (#2196)
• Add support for slices to non-pointers, use non-nullable AnyValue (#2192)
• Fix --set flag to work with {} in configs (#2162)