v0.76.1/v1.0.0-rcv0011

Images and binaries here: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/tag/v0.76.1

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• confmap: Using an Invalid Scheme in a URI will throw an error. (#7504)

🚩 Deprecations 🚩

• featuregate: Deprecate Gate.RemovalVersion and WithRegisterRemovalVersion in favor of ToVersion. (#7043)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• batchprocessor: Support zero timeout. (#7508)
  This allows the batchprocessor to limit request sizes without introducing delay in a pipeline, to act only as a splitter.

• service: use the otel opencensus bridge when telemetry.useOtelForInternalMetrics is enabled (#7483)

• connector: Mark 'service.connectors' featuregate as stable (#2336)

• featuregate: Add a new Deprecated stage for feature gates, when features are abandoned. (#7043)

• loggingexporter: Show more counters in not detailed verbosity (#7461)
  The logging exporter now shows more counters when the verbosity is not detailed. The following numbers are added:

  • Number of resource logs
  • Number of resource spans
  • Number of resource metrics
  • Number of data points

• configtls: Reload mTLS ClientCA certificates on file change (#6524)

• confmap: Add support for nested URIs. (#7117)

• featuregate: Add concept of gate lifetime, [fromVersion, toVersion]. (#7043)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• obsreport: fix issue where send_failed_requests counter was reporting an incorrect value. (#7456)