v0.21.0 Beta

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Remove deprecated function IsValid from trace/span ID (#2522)
• Remove accessors for deprecated status code (#2521)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• otlphttp exporter: Add compression option for gzip encoding of outgoing http requests (#2502)
• Add ScrapeErrors struct to consumererror to simplify errors usage (#2414)
• Add cors_allowed_headers option to confighttp (#2454)
• Add SASL/SCRAM authentication mechanism on kafka receiver and exporter (#2503)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• otlp receiver: Sets the correct deprecated status code before sending data to the pipeline (#2521)
• Fix IsPermanent to account for wrapped errors (#2455)
• otlp exporter: Preserve original error messages (#2459)

Note

As a precautionary measure against the codecov incident, we've rebuilt the binaries, packages and docker images for this release. Please update your builds and checksums.