API

• Add some helpful logging attribute methods to LogRecordBuilder (#7089)

Incubator

• Introduce ConfigProvider API. Rename StructuredConfigProperties to DeclarativeConfigProperties and move to opentelemetry-api-incubator. Rename FileConfiguration to DeclarativeConfiguration. (#6549)

SDK

• Log warning and adjust when BatchLogRecordProcessor, BatchSpanProcessor maxExportBatchSize exceeds maxQueueSize. (#7045, #7148)
• Fix bug causing ThrottlingLogger to log more than once per minute (#7156)

Metrics

• Remove obsolete SdkMeterProviderUtil#setCardinalitylimit API (#7169)

Traces

• Fix bug preventing accurate reporting of span event dropped attribute count (#7142)

Exporters

• OTLP: remove support for otel.java.experimental.exporter.memory_mode which was previously replaced by otel.java.exporter.memory_mode (#7127)
• OTLP: Extract sender parameters to config carrier class (incubating API) (#7151)
• OTLP: Add support for setting OTLP exporter service class loader (#7150)

Tooling

• Update android animalsniffer min API version to 23 (#7153)

🙇 Thank you

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

@breedx-splk @brunobat @chukunx @codefromthecrypt @devilcoolyue @geoand @github-advanced-security @jack-berg @jaydeluca @jeanbisutti @jkwatson @joffrey-bion @laurit @LikeTheSalad @naumaan123 @pbalint @step-security-bot @tealamore @tongshushan @trask @zeitlinger