Release version 0.27.0

v0.27.0 Beta

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Change Marshal signatures in kafkaexporter's Marshalers to directly convert pdata to sarama.ProducerMessage (#3162)
• Remove tracetranslator.DetermineValueType, only used internally by Zipkin (#3114)
• Remove OpenCensus conventions, should not be used (#3113)
• Remove Zipkin specific translation constants, move to internal (#3112)
• Remove tracetranslator.TagHTTPStatusCode, use conventions.AttributeHTTPStatusCode (#3111)
• Remove OpenCensus status constants and transformation (#3110)
• Remove tracetranslator.AttributeArrayToSlice, not used in core or contrib (#3109)
• Remove internaldata.MetricsData, same APIs as for traces (#3156)
• Rename config.IDFromString to NewIDFromString, remove MustIDFromString (#3177)
• Move consumerfanout package to internal (#3207)
• Canonicalize enum names in pdata. Fix usage of uppercase names (#3208)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Use config.ComponentID for obsreport receiver/scraper (#3098)
• Add initial implementation of the consumerhelper (#3146)
• Add Collector version to Prometheus Remote Write Exporter user-agent header (#3094)
• Refactor processorhelper to use consumerhelper, split by signal type (#3180)
• Use consumerhelper for exporterhelper, add WithCapabilities (#3186)
• Set capabilities for all core exporters, remove unnecessary funcs (#3190)
• Add an internal sharedcomponent to be shared by receivers with shared resources (#3198)
• Allow users to configure the Prometheus remote write queue (#3046)
• Mark internaldata traces translation as deprecated for external usage (#3176)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Fix Prometheus receiver metric start time and reset determination logic. (#3047)
  • The receiver will no longer drop the first sample for counter, summary, and histogram metrics.
• The Prometheus remote write exporter will no longer force counter metrics to have a _total suffix. (#2993)
• Remove locking from jaeger receiver start and stop processes (#3070)
• Fix batch processor metrics reorder, improve performance (#3034)
• Fix batch processor traces reorder, improve performance (#3107)
• Fix batch processor logs reorder, improve performance (#3125)
• Avoid one unnecessary allocation in grpc OTLP exporter (#3122)
• batch processor: Validate that batch config max size is greater than send size (#3126)
• Add capabilities to consumer, remove from processor (#2770)
• Remove internal protos usage in Prometheusremotewrite exporter (#3184)
• prometheus receiver: Honor Prometheus external labels (#3127)
• Validate that remote write queue settings are not negative (#3213)