v1.27.0 (2023-11-08)

Context

• No changes.

Traces

• Add a new AddLink() operation to Span (experimental). (#3678)

Metrics

• No changes.

Logs

• No changes.

Resource

• No changes.

OpenTelemetry Protocol

• New exporter implementations do not need to support OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_SPAN_INSECURE and OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRIC_INSECURE. (#3719)

Compatibility

• No changes.

SDK Configuration

• Define file configuration parse and create operations. (#3437)
• Add environment variable implementation guidelines. (#3738)

Common

• Rename/replace (client|server).socket.(address|port) attributes with network.(peer|local).(address|port). (#3713)

Supplementary Guidelines

• No changes.

New Contributors

• @vprithvi made their first contribution in #3726