Release version 0.26.0

v0.26.0 Beta

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Change With*Unmarshallers signatures in Kafka exporter/receiver (#2973)
• Rename marshall to marshal in all the occurrences (#2977)
• Remove componenterror.ErrAlreadyStarted and componenterror.ErrAlreadyStopped, components should not protect against this, Service will start/stop once.
• Rename ApplicationStartInfo to BuildInfo
• Rename ApplicationStartInfo.ExeName to BuildInfo.Command
• Rename ApplicationStartInfo.LongName to BuildInfo.Description

💡 Enhancements 💡

• kafka exporter: Add logs support (#2943)
• Add AppendEmpty and deprecate Append for slices (#2970)
• Update mdatagen to create factories of init instead of new (#2978)
• zipkin receiver: Reduce the judgment of zipkin v1 version (#2990)
• Custom authenticator logic to accept a component.Host which will extract the authenticator to use based on a new authenticator name property (#2767)
• prometheusremotewrite exporter: Add resource_to_telemetry_conversion config option (#3031)
• logging exporter: Extract OTLP text logging (#3082)
• Format timestamps as strings instead of int in otlptext output (#3088)
• Add darwin arm64 build (#3090)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Fix Jaeger receiver to honor TLS Settings (#2866)
• zipkin translator: Handle missing starttime case for zipkin json v2 format spans (#2506)
• prometheus exporter: Fix OTEL resource label drops (#2899)
• prometheusremotewrite exporter:
  • Enable the queue internally (#2974)
  • Don't drop instance and job labels (#2979)
• jaeger receiver: Wait for server goroutines exit on shutdown (#2985)
• logging exporter: Ignore invalid handle on close (#2994)
• Fix service zpages (#2996)
• batch processor: Fix to avoid reordering and send max size (#3029)