open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector v0.97.0

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End User Changelog

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• telemetry: Remove telemetry.useOtelForInternalMetrics stable feature gate (#9752)

🚀 New components 🚀

• exporter/nop: Add the nopexporter to serve as a placeholder exporter in a pipeline (#7316)
  This is primarily useful for starting the Collector with only extensions enabled
  or to test Collector pipeline throughput.

• receiver/nop: Add the nopreceiver to serve as a placeholder receiver in a pipeline (#7316)
  This is primarily useful for starting the Collector with only extensions enabled.

💡 Enhancements 💡

• configtls: Validates TLS min_version and max_version (#9475)
  Introduces Validate() method in TLSSetting.

• configcompression: Mark module as Stable. (#9571)

• cmd/mdatagen: Use go package name for the scope name by default and add an option to provide the scope name in metadata.yaml. (#9693)

• cmd/mdatagen: Generate the lifecycle tests for components by default. (#9683)
  It's encouraged to have lifecycle tests for all components enadled, but they can be disabled if needed
  in metadata.yaml with skip_lifecycle: true and skip_shutdown: true under tests section.

• cmd/mdatagen: optimize the mdatagen for the case like batchprocessor which use a common struct to implement consumer.Traces, consumer.Metrics, consumer.Logs in the meantime. (#9688)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• exporterhelper: Fix persistent queue size backup on reads. (#9740)
• processor/batch: Prevent starting unnecessary goroutines. (#9739)
• otlphttpexporter: prevent error on empty response body when content type is application/json (#9666)
• confmap: confmap honors Unmarshal methods on config embedded structs. (#6671)
• otelcol: Respect telemetry configuration when running as a Windows service (#5300)

Go API Changelog

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• configgrpc: Remove deprecated ToServer function. (#9787)
• confignet: Change Transport field from string to TransportType (#9385)
• component: Change underlying type of component.Type to an opaque struct. (#9208)
• obsreport: Remove deprecated obsreport/obsreporttest package. (#9724)
• component: Remove deprecated error ErrNilNextConsumer (#9322)
• connector: Remove LogsRouter, MetricsRouter and TracesRouter. Use LogsRouterAndConsumer, MetricsRouterAndConsumer, TracesRouterAndConsumer respectively instead. (#9095)
• receiver: Remove deprecated struct ScraperControllerSettings and function NewDefaultScraperControllerSettings (#6767)
• confmap: Remove deprecated provider.New methods, use NewWithSettings moving forward. (#9443)

🚩 Deprecations 🚩

• configgrpc: Deprecated ToServerContext, use ToServer instead. (#9787)
• configgrpc: Deprecate SanitizedEndpoint (#9788)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• exporterhelper: Add experimental batching capabilities to the exporter helper (#8122)
• confignet: Adds NewDefault* functions for all the config structs. (#9656)
• configtls: Validates TLS min_version and max_version (#9475)
  Introduces Validate() method in TLSSetting.
• exporterhelper: Invalid exporterhelper options now make the exporter creation error out instead of panicking. (#9717)
• components: Give NoOp components a unique name (#9637)

Images and binaries here: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/tag/v0.97.0