Release 1.9.0

[lachmatt]

What

Changed

• Musl-based (Alpine) libraries are compiled on Alpine v3.20.

Dependency updates

• Following packages updated
  • OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.Wcf from 1.0.0-rc.17 to 1.0.0-rc.18,
• .NET Framework only, following packages updated
  • Google.Protobuf updated from 3.28.2 to 3.28.3,
  • Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection from 8.0.0 to 8.0.1,
  • Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions from 8.0.1 to 8.0.2,
  • System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource from 8.0.0 to 8.0.1,
  • System.Text.Json from 8.0.4 to 8.0.5.

Deprecated

• Support for macOS Monterey 12 x64.
  All further releases will be supporting macOS Ventura 13 x64
  and newer.

Removed

• Drop support for following environment variables:
  OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_TRACES_CONSOLE_EXPORTER_ENABLED,
  OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_METRICS_CONSOLE_EXPORTER_ENABLED, and
  OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_LOGS_CONSOLE_EXPORTER_ENABLED.
  Instead, use console as one of the values for the following environment variables:
  OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER
OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER
OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER.

Checklist

• CHANGELOG.md is updated.
• Documentation is updated.
• New features are covered by tests.

[pellared]

nuke Workflow passed on macOS.

[lachmatt]

I ran nuke Workflow locally on Windows machine, there were few failures, all related to #3563

[pellared]

I ran nuke Workflow locally on Windows machine, there were few failures, all related to #3563

Frankly speaking I had the same failures 😅 (these were the only failures)