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This release marks the first where the core of database semantic conventions have stabilized.

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

Marking as ready to review, but need to hold off merging until last few PRs to land:

• #2206
• #2210

What's Changed

• Auto-update registry versions (e8a788d0b134caf6bbb511352e69a289c53b2002) by @opentelemetrybot in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/6628
• Update opentelemetry-collector-releases version to v0.123.0 by @opentelemetrybot in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/6630

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.

Fixes #4220

Already used by Rust; https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/issues/4220#issuecomment-2828399052:

Fixes #4450

Moved the InstrumentationScope definition from glossary into common/README.md, and massaged it using normative language. Also removed the compile-time concept restriction (as clarified in the related issue, this limitation does not exist in a few SIGs).

Related to #4468, #4414

This OTEP suggests a path forward on how to support complex attributes. It proposes to:

propagation

Fixes #4470

What's Changed

Added

Fixes #4298

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