v1.43.0/v0.137.0

Images and binaries here: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/tag/v0.137.0

End User Changelog

💡 Enhancements 💡

• cmd/mdatagen: Improve validation for resource attribute enabled field in metadata files (#12722)
  Resource attributes now require an explicit enabled field in metadata.yaml files, while regular attributes
  are prohibited from having this field. This improves validation and prevents configuration errors.

• all: Changelog entries will now have their component field checked against a list of valid components. (#13924)
  This will ensure a more standardized changelog format which makes it easier to parse.

• pkg/pdata: Mark featuregate pdata.useCustomProtoEncoding as stable (#13883)

API Changelog

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• pkg/exporterhelper: Remove all experimental symbols in exporterhelper (#11143)
  They have all been moved to xexporterhelper

🚩 Deprecations 🚩

• all: service/telemetry.TracesConfig is deprecated (#13904)
  This type alias has been added to otelconftelemetry.TracesConfig,
  where the otelconf-based telemetry implementation now lives.

💡 Enhancements 💡

• all: Mark configoptional as stable (#13403)
• all: Mark configauth module as 1.0 (#9476)
• pkg/pdata: Mark featuregate pdata.useCustomProtoEncoding as stable (#13883)