v0.28.0 Beta

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Remove unused logstest package (#3222)
• Introduce AppSettings instead of Parameters (#3163)
• Remove unused testutil.TempSocketName (#3291)
• Move BigEndian helper functions in tracetranslator to an internal package.(#3298)
• Rename configtest.LoadConfigFile to configtest.LoadConfigAndValidate (#3306)
• Replace ExtensionCreateParams with ExtensionCreateSettings (#3294)
• Replace ProcessorCreateParams with ProcessorCreateSettings. (#3181)
• Replace ExporterCreateParams with ExporterCreateSettings (#3164)
• Replace ReceiverCreateParams with ReceiverCreateSettings. (#3167)
• Change batchprocessor logic to limit data points rather than metrics (#3141)
• Rename PrwExporter to PRWExporter and NewPrwExporter to NewPRWExporter (#3246)
• Avoid exposing OpenCensus reference in public APIs (#3253)
• Move config.Parser to configparser.Parser (#3304)
• Remove deprecated funcs inside the obsreceiver (#3314)
• Remove obsreport.GRPCServerWithObservabilityEnabled, enable observability in config (#3315)
• Remove obsreport.ProcessorMetricViews, use BuildProcessorCustomMetricName where needed (#3316)
• Remove "Receive" from obsreport.Receiver funcs (#3326)
• Remove "Export" from obsreport.Exporter funcs (#3333)
• Hide unnecessary public struct obsreport.StartReceiveOptions (#3353)
• Avoid exposing internal implementation public in OC/OTEL receivers (#3355)
• Updated configgrpc ToDialOptions and confighttp ToClient apis to take extensions configuration map (#3340)
• Remove GenerateSequentialTraceID and GenerateSequentialSpanIDin functions in testbed (#3390)
• Change "grpc" to "GRPC" in configauth function/type names (#3285)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Add doc.go files to the consumer package and its subpackages (#3270)
• Automate triggering of doc-update on release (#3234)
• Enable Dependabot for Github Actions (#3312)
• Remove the proto dependency in goldendataset for traces (#3322)
• Add telemetry for dropped data due to exporter sending queue overflow (#3328)
• Add initial implementation of pdatagrcp (#3231)
• Change receiver obsreport helpers pattern to match the Processor/Exporter (#3227)
• Add model translation and encoding interfaces (#3200)
• Add otlpjson as a serializer implementation (#3238)
• prometheus receiver:
  • Add createNodeAndResourcePdata for Prometheus->OTLP pdata (#3139)
  • Direct metricfamily Prometheus->OTLP (#3145)
• Add componenttest.NewNop*CreateSettings to simplify tests (#3375)
• Add support for markdown generation (#3100)
• Refactor components for the Client Authentication Extensions (#3287)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Use dedicated zapcore.Core for Windows service (#3147)
• Hook up start and shutdown functions in fileexporter (#3260)
• Fix oc to pdata translation for sum non-monotonic cumulative (#3272)
• Fix timeseriesSignature in prometheus receiver (#3310)