API

• BREAKING: Stabilize log support for AnyValue bodies. Rename AnyValue to Value, promote from opentelemetry-api-incubator to opentelemetry-api, change package from io.opentelemetry.api.incubator.logs to io.opentelemetry.api.common. (#6591)
• Noop implementations detect when opentelemetry-api-incubator is present and return extended noop implementations. (#6617)%

SDK

Traces

• Added experimental support for SpanProcessor OnEnding callback (#6367)
• Remove final modifier from SdkTracer.tracerEnabled (#6687)

Exporters

• Suppress zipkin exporter instrumentation (#6552)
• OTLP exporters return status code exceptions via CompletableResultCode in GrpcExporter and HttpExporter. (#6645)
• Align GrpcSender contract with HttpSender (#6658)

Extensions

• Add autoconfigure support for ns and us durations (#6654)
• Add declarative configuration ComponentProvider support for resources (#6625)
• Add declarative configuration ComponentProvider support for processors (#6623)
• Add declarative configuration ComponentProvider support for samplers (#6494)
• Add declarative configuration ComponentProvider support for propagators (#6624)
• Add declarative configuration missing pieces (#6677)
• Change jaeger remote sampler autoconfigure property from pollingInterval to pollingIntervalMs to match spec. (#6672)

Testing

• Add asserts for log record body fields (#6509)

🙇 Thank you

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

@anuraaga @breedx-splk @chungngoops @codefromthecrypt @drewhammond @galahad098 @jack-berg @jackshirazi @jarrodrobins @jkwatson @JonasKunz @laurit @LikeTheSalad @SylvainJuge @trask @zeitlinger