opentelemetry v0.5.0

Alpha v5 release:
Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin

Changelog:

• [SDK] Support custom span-id and trace-id generator (#681)
• [SDK] Add SpanContext (and TraceState) to Recordable (#667)
• [SDK] Global Propagator (#668)
• [SDK] Create SharedContext for updating span pipeline (#650)
• [API] Baggage implementation (#676)
• [API] Move class from opentelemetry::core namespace to opentelemetry::common namespace (#686)

opentelemetry v0.4.0

Alpha v4 release:
Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin

Changelog:

• [EXPORTER] ETW Exporter enhancements (#519)
• [EXPORTER] Read Zipkin endpoint from environment variable. (#624)
• [EXPORTER] Split Zpages webserver hosting from Exporter (#626)
• [EXPORTER] ETW Exporter Usage Instructions (#628)
• [INSTRUMENTATION] HTTP Client/Server Instrumentation example (#632)
• [EXPORTER] Enable tls authentication for otlp grpc exporter ([#635](Enable tls authentication for otlp grpc exporter))
• [API] Refactoring trace_state to reuse common functionality in baggage (#638)

opentelemetry v0.3.0

Alpha v3 release:
Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin

Changelog:

• [EXPORTER] Added Zipkin Exporter. (#471)
• [API] Added Jaeger propagator. (#599)
• [PROPAGATOR] Added Composite Propagator (#597)
• [API] Propagate traceflag from parent (#603)
• [DOCS] Add sphinx support for api doc generation (595)
• [SDK] Add service.name if missing in Resource (#616)

opentelemetry v0.2.0

Alpha v2 release:
Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw

Changelog:

• [SDK] Added ForceFlush to TracerProvider. (#588).
• [SDK] Added Resource API. (#502)
• [API] Modified TraceState support for w3c trace context as per specs.
  (#551)
• [API] Added B3 Propagator. (#523)
• [Exporter] Added ETW Exporter. (#376)
• [CI] Enable cache for Bazel for faster builds. (#505)

Initial development release

Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp