v0.26.0 Beta

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

Change With*Unmarshallers signatures in Kafka exporter/receiver (#2973)
Rename marshall to marshal in all the occurrences (#2977)
Remove componenterror.ErrAlreadyStarted and componenterror.ErrAlreadyStopped, components should not protect against this, Service will start/stop once.
Rename ApplicationStartInfo to BuildInfo
Rename ApplicationStartInfo.ExeName to BuildInfo.Command
Rename ApplicationStartInfo.LongName to BuildInfo.Description

kafka exporter: Add logs support (#2943)
Add AppendEmpty and deprecate Append for slices (#2970)
Update mdatagen to create factories of init instead of new (#2978)
zipkin receiver: Reduce the judgment of zipkin v1 version (#2990)
Custom authenticator logic to accept a component.Host which will extract the authenticator to use based on a new authenticator name property (#2767)
prometheusremotewrite exporter: Add resource_to_telemetry_conversion config option (#3031)
logging exporter: Extract OTLP text logging (#3082)
Format timestamps as strings instead of int in otlptext output (#3088)
Add darwin arm64 build (#3090)

Fix Jaeger receiver to honor TLS Settings (#2866)
zipkin translator: Handle missing starttime case for zipkin json v2 format spans (#2506)
prometheus exporter: Fix OTEL resource label drops (#2899)
prometheusremotewrite exporter:
- Enable the queue internally (#2974)
- Don't drop instance and job labels (#2979)
jaeger receiver: Wait for server goroutines exit on shutdown (#2985)
logging exporter: Ignore invalid handle on close (#2994)
Fix service zpages (#2996)
batch processor: Fix to avoid reordering and send max size (#3029)