Images and binaries here: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/tag/v0.112.0

End User Changelog

v1.18.0/v0.112.0

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• consumer/consumererror: Extract consumer/consumererror as a separate go module (#11440)
• exporter/expotertest: Put expotertest into its own module (#11461)
• service: Remove stable gate component.UseLocalHostAsDefaultHost (#11412)

🚩 Deprecations 🚩

• processortest: Deprecated 'NewUnhealthyProcessorCreateSettings'. Use NewNopSettings instead. (#11307)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• mdatagen: Added generated_package_name config field to support custom generated package name. (#11231)
• mdatagen: Generate documentation for components with resource attributes only (#10705)
• confighttp: Adding support for lz4 compression into the project (#9128)
• service: Hide profiles support behind a feature gate while it remains alpha. (#11477)
• exporterhelper: Retry sender will fail fast when the context timeout is shorter than the next retry interval. (#11183)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• cmd/builder: Fix default configuration for builder for httpprovider, httpsprovider, and yamlprovider. (#11357)
• processorhelper: Fix issue where in/out parameters were not recorded when error was returned from consumer. (#11351)

API Changes

v1.18.0/v0.112.0

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• service: Change Host to not implement GetExportersWithSignal (#11444) Use Host.GetExporters if still needed.
• componentstatus: Remove deprecated NewInstanceIDWithPipelineIDs, AllPipelineIDsWithPipelineIDs, and WithPipelineIDs. Use NewInstanceID, AllPipelineIDs and WithPipelines instead. (#11363)
• configgrpc: Removed deprecated ClientConfig.ToClientConnWithOptions/ServerConfig.ToServerWithOptions. (#11359, #9480) These methods were renamed to ClientConfig.ToClientConn/ServerConfig.ToServer in v0.111.0.
• connector: Put connectortest in its own module (#11216)
• exporter: Disables setting batch option to batch sender directly. (#10368) Removed WithRequestBatchFuncs(BatcherOption) in favor of WithBatchFuncs(Option), where | BatcherOption is a function that operates on batch sender and Option is one that operates | on BaseExporter
• exporter: Made mergeFunc and mergeSplitFunc required method of exporter.Request (#10368) mergeFunc and mergeSplitFunc used to be part of the configuration pass to the exporter. Now it is changed | to be a method function of request.
• componentprofiles: Move componentprofiles to pipelineprofiles (#11421)
• processor: Put processortest in its own module (#11218)
• receivertest: Removed deprecated NewNopFactoryForTypeWithSignal. Use NewNopFactoryForType instead. (#11362)
• processor: Remove deprecated funcs from processor package (#11368)
• receiver: Remove deprecated funcs from receiver package (#11367)
• processorhelper: Remove deprecated funcs/types from processorhelper & componenttest (#11302)
• service: Remove deprecated pipelines.ConfigWithPipelineID and Config.PipelinesWithPipelineID. Use pipelines.Config and Config.Pipelines instead. (#11361)

🚩 Deprecations 🚩

• extension: Deprecate funcs that repeat extension in name (#11413) Factory.CreateExtension -> Factory.Create | Factory.ExtensionStability -> Factory.Stability

• exporter: Deprecate funcs that repeate exporter in name (#11370) Factory.Create[Traces|Metrics|Logs|Profiles]Exporter -> Factory.Create[Traces|Metrics|Logs|Profiles] | Factory.[Traces|Metrics|Logs|Profiles]ExporterStability -> Factory.[Traces|Metrics|Logs|Profiles]Stability

🚀 New components 🚀

• consumererrorprofiles: Add new module consumereerrorprofiles for consumer error profiles. (#11131)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• configcompression: Add support for lz4 compression (#9128)
• otlpexporter: Add profiles support to OTLP exporter (#11435)
• otlphttpexporter: Add profiles support to OTLP HTTP exporter (#11450)