open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet core-1.8.0

1.8.0

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If you're interested in knowing all of the changes that went into 1.8.0 release, please go through the release notes of all the previous pre-release versions for 1.8.0:

• https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/releases/tag/core-1.8.0-beta.1
• https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/releases/tag/core-1.8.0-rc.1

Changes in 1.8.0:

OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Console

• Added support for ActivitySource.Version property.
  (#5472)

OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol

• OtlpExporter will no longer throw an exception (even on .NET Core 3.1)
  when the System.Net.Http.SocketsHttpHandler.Http2UnencryptedSupport
AppContext switch is NOT set AND using OtlpExportProtocol.Grpc
  to send to an insecure ("http") endpoint.
  System.Net.Http.SocketsHttpHandler.Http2UnencryptedSupport
  is not required to be set when using .NET 5 or newer.
  (#5486)

• Replaced environment variable
  OTEL_DOTNET_EXPERIMENTAL_OTLP_ENABLE_INMEMORY_RETRY with
  OTEL_DOTNET_EXPERIMENTAL_OTLP_RETRY. OTEL_DOTNET_EXPERIMENTAL_OTLP_RETRY
  when set to in_memory will enable automatic retries in case of transient
  failures during data export to an OTLP endpoint.
  (#5495)