Added

• Add WithProxy option in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp. (#4906)
• Add WithProxy option in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlptracehttp. (#4906)
• Add AddLink method to the Span interface in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace. (#5032)
• The Enabled method is added to the Logger interface in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log. This method is used to notify users if a log record will be emitted or not. (#5071)
• Add SeverityUndefined const to go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log. This value represents an unset severity level. (#5072)
• Add Empty function in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log to return a KeyValue for an empty value. (#5076)
• Add go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log/global to manage the global LoggerProvider. This package is provided with the anticipation that all functionality will be migrate to go.opentelemetry.io/otel when go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log stabilizes. At which point, users will be required to migrage their code, and this package will be deprecated then removed. (#5085)
• Add support for Summary metrics in the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc exporters. (#5100)
• Add otel.scope.name and otel.scope.version tags to spans exported by go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/zipkin. (#5108)
• Add support for AddLink to go.opentelemetry.io/otel/bridge/opencensus. (#5116)
• Add String method to Value and KeyValue in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log. (#5117)
• Add Exemplar support to go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus. (#5111)
• Add metric semantic conventions to go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.24.0. Future semconv packages will include metric semantic conventions as well. (#4528)

Changed

• SpanFromContext and SpanContextFromContext in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace no longer make a heap allocation when the passed context has no span. (#5049)
• go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc now create a gRPC client in idle mode and with "dns" as the default resolver using grpc.NewClient. (#5151) Because of that WithDialOption ignores grpc.WithBlock, grpc.WithTimeout, and grpc.WithReturnConnectionError. Notice that grpc.DialContext which was used before is now deprecated.

Fixed

• Clarify the documentation about equivalence guarantees for the Set and Distinct types in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute. (#5027)
• Prevent default ErrorHandler self-delegation. (#5137)
• Update all dependencies to address GO-2024-2687. (#5139)

Removed

• Drop support for Go 1.20. (#4967)

Deprecated

• Deprecate go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute.Sortable type. (#4734)
• Deprecate go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute.NewSetWithSortable function. (#4734)
• Deprecate go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute.NewSetWithSortableFiltered function. (#4734)

New Contributors

• @tgolang made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/pull/5048
• @MickaelAlliel made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/pull/4906
• @s4s7 made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/pull/5096
• @Kielek made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/pull/5108
• @q-cheng made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/pull/5032
• @carrbs made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/pull/4880

Full Changelog: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/compare/v1.24.0...v1.25.0