SDK

• Remove unused dependencies, cleanup code after stabilizing Value (#6948)
• Explicitly allow null into CompletableResultCode.failExceptionally() (#6963)

Traces

• Fix span setStatus (#6990)

Logs

• Add getters/accessors for readable fields in ReadWriteLogRecord. (#6924)

Exporters

• OTLP: Update to opentelemetry-proto 1.5 (#6999)
• Bugfix - OTLP: Ensure Serializer runtime exceptions are rethrown as IOException (#6969)
• BREAKING - OTLP: Delete experimental OTLP authenticator concept. See OTLP authentication docs for supported solutions. (#6984)

Extensions

• BREAKING - Autoconfigure: Remove support for deprecated otel.experimental.resource.disabled.keys (#6931)

🙇 Thank you

This release was possible thanks to the following contributors who shared their brilliant ideas and awesome pull requests:

@breedx-splk @celikrecep @happysiddharth @jack-berg @jaydeluca @jhalliday @jkwatson @laurit @robsunday @steverao @trask @zeitlinger