SDK

Traces

• Lazily initialize the container for events in the SDK Span implementation (#6244)

Exporters

• Add basic proxy configuration to OtlpHttp{Signal}Exporters (#6270)
• Add connectTimeout configuration option OtlpGrpc{Signal}Exporters (#6079)

Extensions

• Add ComponentLoader to autoconfigure support more scenarios (#6217)
• Added MetricReader customizer for AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdkBuilder (#6231)
• Return AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdkBuilder instead of the base type (#6248)

Tooling

• Add note about draft PRs to CONTRIBUTING.md (#6247)

🙇 Thank you

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

@alexandru-roman-db @asafm @breedx-splk @jack-berg @jeanbisutti @jkwatson @johnbley @lmolkova @marcschumacher @trask @tydhot @zeitlinger