v1.42.0/v0.136.0

Images and binaries here: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/tag/v0.136.0

End User Changelog

💡 Enhancements 💡

• xpdata: Add Serialization and Deserialization of AnyValue (#12826)
• debugexporter: add support for batching (#13791)
  The default queue size is 1
• configtls: Add early validation for TLS server configurations to fail fast when certificates are missing instead of failing at runtime. (#13130, #13245)
• mdatagen: Expose stability level in generated metric documentation (#13748)
• internal/tools: Add support for modernize in Makefile (#13796)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• otelcol: Fix a potential deadlock during collector shutdown. (#13740)
• otlpexporter: fix the validation of unix socket endpoints (#13826)

API Changelog

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• exporterhelper: Remove deprecated function NewRequestsSizer (#13803)
• pdata/pprofile: Upgrade the OTLP protobuf definitions to version 1.8.0 (#13758, #13825, #13839)
• pdata/pprofile: Remove deprecated ProfilesDictionary method (#13858)

🚩 Deprecations 🚩

• exporterhelper: Deprecate all experimental symbols in exporterhelper and move them to xexporterhelper (#11143)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• configoptional: Add GetOrInsertDefault method to configoptional.Optional (#13856)
  This method inserts a default or zero value into a None/Default Optional before Getting its inner value.

• exporter: Stabilize exporter module. (#12978)
  This does not stabilize the exporterhelper module or configuration

• pdata: Upgrade the OTLP protobuf definitions to version 1.8.0 (#13758)