OpenTelemetry Changelog

Changed

• profiles: drop gzip requirement. [#661](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/pull/661)

What's Changed

• [uk] Don't prosewrap uk pages by @chalin in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/7445
• docs(blog): add cross-posting guidelines to blog submission instructions by @nwanduka in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/7416

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• gen-ai: Revamp how GenAI chat history is recorded. Instead of per-message events,

Towards https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/issues/4602

Per OTEP: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/oteps/4485-extending-attributes-to-support-complex-values.md#why-doesnt-this-require-a-major-version-bump

This OTEP defines a EntityProvider, to enable the updating of resources that have a lifespan shorter than the lifespan of the application instance.

This OTEP is currently a draft. The primary open question is how to handle active spans that are already running when a resource change is made. Please see the OTEP for details.

Hi all, Following discussions in recent OpenTelemetry SIG meetings regarding the need for supporting authentication plugins in SDK exporters, it was agreed that a formal proposal should be developed to standardize this capability across languages.

Logs

• Improve concurrency safety description of LogRecordProcessor.OnEmit. ([#4578](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/4578))

Fixes #4298

This PR adds the MeasurementProcessor concept to the Metrics SDK specification.

Related to https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/issues/1536

Changes

What's Changed

• Update community members by @opentelemetrybot in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/7239
• Auto-update registry versions (0c430aba2bd560ea9c107ba9ec3cc39ca7befda0) by @opentelemetrybot in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/7240