Release v1.16.0-rc.1/v0.41.0-rc.1/v0.10.0-rc.1

[MrAlias]

This release upgrades to the release candidate of the stable OpenTelemetry Go metric API.

Changed

• Dropped compatibility testing for Go 1.18. The project no longer guarantees support for this version of Go. (Drop compatibility testing for Go 1.18 #3516)

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #3520 (8fa0d5f) into main (487dc02) will increase coverage by 5.1%.
The diff coverage is 33.3%.

Additional details and impacted files

@@           Coverage Diff           @@
##            main   #3520     +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   69.9%   75.0%   +5.1%     
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  Files        147     152      +5     
  Lines       6934    6999     +65     
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+ Hits        4851    5256    +405     
+ Misses      1959    1603    -356     
- Partials     124     140     +16     

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
detectors/aws/ec2/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
detectors/aws/ecs/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
detectors/aws/eks/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
detectors/gcp/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...thub.com/Shopify/sarama/otelsarama/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...github.com/astaxie/beego/otelbeego/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...tion/github.com/astaxie/beego/otelbeego/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...thub.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/otelaws/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...z/gomemcache/memcache/otelmemcache/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...om/emicklei/go-restful/otelrestful/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
... and 50 more