OpenTelemetry - java

API

Incubator

• Add experimental synchronous gauge (#5506)

SDK

Metrics

• Add attributes advice API (#5677, #5722)
• Add AttributesProcessor toString, add attribute filter helper (#5765)
• Increase metric name maximum length from 63 to 255 characters (#5697)

Exporter

• Prometheus exporter: remove non-ucum units from conversion (#5719)
• Prometheus exporter: add units to metric names in TYPE and HELP comments (#5718)

SDK Extensions

• Add support for file based configuration to incubator (#5687, #5751, #5758, #5757, #5755, #5763, #5766, #5773, #5771, #5779)
• Autoconfigure ConfigProperties#getMap filters entries with blank values instead of throwing (#5784)

Semantic conventions

• DEPRECATION: io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-semconv is deprecated for removal. Please use io.opentelemetry.semconv:opentelemetry-semconv:1.21.0-alpha instead, which is published from open-telemetry/semantic-conventions-java. The new repository is published in lockstep with open-telemetry/semantic-conventions. (#5786)

Project Tooling

• Update Gradle Wrapper from 8.2.1 to 8.3 (#5728)
• Remove dependabot and update-gradle-wrapper task in favor of renovate (#5746)

🙇 Thank you

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

@breedx-splk @brunobat @dashpole @dependabot @Emily-Jiang @erenming @jack-berg @jkwatson @jsuereth @mateuszrzeszutek @tigrannajaryan @trask @tylerbenson