Release v0.16.0 (#2234)

Author: jchengsfx

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,9 +2,31 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## v0.16.0 Beta
+
+## 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑
+
+- Rename Push functions to be consistent across signals in `exporterhelper` (#2203)
+
 ## 💡 Enhancements 💡
 
-- `kafka` exporter: Add support for exporting metrics as otlp Protobuf. #1966
+- Change default OTLP/gRPC port number to 4317, also continue receiving on legacy port
+  55680 during transition period (#2104).
+- `kafka` exporter: Add support for exporting metrics as otlp Protobuf. (#1966)
+- Move scraper helpers to its own `scraperhelper` package (#2185)
+- Add `componenthelper` package to help build components (#2186)
+- Remove usage of custom init/stop in `scraper` and use start/shutdown from `component` (#2193)
+- Add more trace annotations, so zpages are more useful to determine failures (#2206)
+- Add support to skip TLS verification (#2202)
+- Expose non-nullable metric types (#2208)
+- Expose non-nullable elements from slices of pointers (#2200)
+
+## 🧰 Bug fixes 🧰
+
+- Change InstrumentationLibrary to be non-nullable (#2196)
+- Add support for slices to non-pointers, use non-nullable AnyValue (#2192)
+- Fix `--set` flag to work with `{}` in configs (#2162)
+
 ## v0.15.0 Beta
 
 ## 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑
@@ -25,8 +47,6 @@
 - Add config settings for component telemetry (#2148)
 - Use net.SplitHostPort for IPv6 support in `prometheus` receiver (#2154)
 - Add --log-format command line option (default to "console") #2177.
-- Change default OTLP/gRPC port number to 4317, also continue receiving on legacy port
-  55680 during transition period (#2104).
 
 ## 🧰 Bug fixes 🧰