Version 1.34.0

NOTE: This is the LAST release for opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger and opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thift. Jaeger has native support for OTLP, and users should export to jaeger using OTLP instead.

API

• Ability to access version.properties API file with GraalVM native (#6095)

SDK

Traces

• Only call SpanProcessor onStart / onEnd if required (#6112)
• Add option to export unsampled spans from span processors (#6057)

Metrics

• Memory Mode: Adding first part support for synchronous instruments - storage (#5998)
• Base2ExponentialHistogramAggregation maxBuckets must be >= 2 (#6093)
• Convert histogram measurements to double before passing recording exemplar reservoir (#6024)

Exporters

• Add compressor SPI to support additional compression algos (#5990)
• Test OTLP exporters with different OkHttp versions (#6045)
• Refactor prometheus exporter to use io.prometheus:prometheus-metrics-exporter-httpserver, add exponential Histogram support (#6015)
• UpstreamGrpcSenderProvider uses minimal fallback managed channel when none is specified (#6110)
• OTLP exporters propagate serialization IOException instead of rethrowing as runtime (#6082)

Extensions

• Autoconfigure reads normalized otel.config.file property (#6105)

🙇 Thank you

This release was possible thanks to the following contributors who shared their brilliant ideas and awesome pull requests:

@asafm
@axw
@fax4ever
@fstab
@HaloFour
@jack-berg
@jeanbisutti
@jkwatson
@lchdev
@nluk
@NthPortal
@patrick-me
@ricardo-mestre
@TomasChladekSL
@trask