open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector v0.56.0

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Images and binaries here: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/tag/v0.56.0

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Add linux-ppc64le architecture to cross build tests in CI (#5645)
• client: perform case insensitive lookups in case the requested metadata value isn't found (#5646)
• loggingexporter: Decouple loglevel field from level of logged messages (#5678)
• Expose pcommon.NewSliceFromRaw function (#5679)
• loggingexporter: create the exporter's logger from the service's logger (#5677)
• Add otelcol_exporter_queue_capacity metrics show the collector's exporter queue capacity (#5475)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Fix Collector panic when disabling telemetry metrics (#5642)
• Fix Collector panic when featuregate value is empty (#5663)
• Fix confighttp.compression panic due to nil request.Body. (#5628)