OpenTelemetry Changelog

Fixes https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/issues/4675

Changes

Traces

• Restore TraceIdRatioBased and give it a deprecation timeline. Update recommended

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.

What's Changed

• Auto-update registry versions (30cdd8516164a5f041a1adf68a0325eaa43cf5a0) by @opentelemetrybot in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/7680
• Update content/en/docs/languages/java/sdk.md by @chluknight1224 in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/7675

Entities

• Specify entity information via an environment variable.

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

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.