🎉 OpenTelemetry Collector v0.5.0 (Beta) 🎉

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Update OTLP to v0.4.0 (#1142): Collector will be incompatible with any other sender or receiver of OTLP protocol
  of different versions
• Make "--new-metrics" command line flag the default (#1148)
• Change endpoint to url in Zipkin exporter config (#1186)
• Change tls_credentials to tls_settings in Jaegar receiver config (#1233)
• OTLP receiver config change for protocols to support mTLS (#1223)
• Remove export_resource_labels flag from Zipkin exporter (#1163)

🚀 New components 🚀

• Receivers
  • Added process scraper to the hostmetrics receiver (#1047)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• otlpexporter: send configured headers in request (#1130)
• Enable Collector to be run as a Windows service (#1120)
• Add config for HttpServer (#1196)
• Allow cors in HTTPServerSettings (#1211)
• Add a generic grpc server settings config, cleanup client config (#1183)
• Rely on gRPC to batch and loadbalance between connections instead of custom logic (#1212)
• Allow to tune the read/write buffers for gRPC clients (#1213)
• Allow to tune the read/write buffers for gRPC server (#1218)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Handle overlapping metrics from different jobs in prometheus exporter (#1096)
• Fix handling of SpanKind INTERNAL in OTLP OC translation (#1143)
• Unify zipkin v1 and v2 annotation/tag parsing logic (#1002)
• mTLS: Add support to configure client CA and enforce ClientAuth (#1185)
• Fixed untyped Prometheus receiver bug (#1194)
• Do not embed ProtocolServerSettings in gRPC (#1210)
• Add Context to the missing CreateMetricsReceiver method (#1216)

📦 Release bits 📦

Docker: docker pull otel/opentelemetry-collector:0.4.1
Binary checksums: Generated with shasum -a 256 bin/* and are present in the checksums.txt file