1.8.0/0.31.0 - 2022-07-08

Added

• Add support for opentracing.TextMap format in the Inject and Extract methods of the "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/bridge/opentracing".BridgeTracer type. (#2911)

Changed

• The crosslink make target has been updated to use the go.opentelemetry.io/build-tools/crosslink package. (#2886)
• In the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/instrumentation package rename Library to Scope and alias Library as Scope (#2976)
• Move metric no-op implementation form nonrecording to metric package. (#2866)

Removed

• Support for go1.16. Support is now only for go1.17 and go1.18 (#2917)

Deprecated

• The Library struct in the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/instrumentation package is deprecated. Use the equivalent Scope struct instead. (#2977)
• The ReadOnlySpan.InstrumentationLibrary method from the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace package is deprecated. Use the equivalent ReadOnlySpan.InstrumentationScope method instead. (#2977)