opentelemetry v1.0.0-rc3

v1.0.0-rc3 release:
Release Candidate of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger

Changelog:

• [DOCS] Add doxygen reference docs for SDK (#902)
• [EXPORTER] Jaeger Exporter - Populate resource attributes into process tags in Jaeger (#897)
• [EXPORTER] Zipkin Exporter - Report Event timestamp into microseconds (#896)
• [EXPORTER] Jaeger Exporter - Handle span events (#895)
• [DOCS] Fix API docs for Scope object (#894)
• [BUILD] Fix Linking error for libcurl on some macOS environments (#893)
• [API] Context cleanup from Runtime Storage (#885)
• [DOCS] Document strategy to avoid conflict between two different versions of Abseil (#883)
• [EXPORTER] ETW Exporter - Document example for ETW Exporter (#882)
• [SDK] Create Span with Valid spanId and traceId irrespective of Sampling decision (#879)
• [EXPORTER] Jaeger Exporter - Rename bswap macros to avoid clash on some systems (#876)
• [API] Add Semantics Conventions attributes for Resources (#872)
• [BUILD] Use nlohmann-json from submodules if not already installed (#870)

opentelemetry v1.0.0-rc2

v1.0.0-rc2 release:
Release Candidate of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger

Changelog:

• [EXPORTER] Jaeger Exporter - Support for Instrumentation Library (#864)
• [TESTS] Adding benchmark tests for baggage api (#861)
• [BUILD] Fix for GCC9/C++20 Support for using STL for modern C++ features (#860)
• [TESTS] Adding benchmark tests for span create api (#856)
• [BUILD] Fix for using Abseil library for modern C++ features (#850)
• [BUILD] Fix issues with win32/x86 compilation (#847)
• [DOCS] Document OSS dependencies and their licenses (#844)
• [BUILD] Various fixes to build with Visual Studio 2015 (#840)
• [INSTRUMENTATION] HTTPClient: Change support for full URL argument (#833)
• [EXPORTER] Jaeger Exporter - fix endianness of Jaeger IDs for transmission (#832)
• [INSTRUMENTATION] fix protobuf compilation warning in gRPC example (#830)
• [EXPORTER] BREAKING CHANGE - Add OTLP/HTTP+JSON Protocol exporter; Rename OtlpExporter to OtlpGrpcExporter (#810)

opentelemetry v1.0.0-rc1

v1.0.0-rc1 release:
Release Candidate of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger

Changelog:

• [BUILD] Enable Jaeger exporter build in Windows (#815)
• [DOCS] Versioning doc update to clarify release and versioning policy (#811)
• [LOGS] Breaking Change Move Logging implementation under feature-flag (#807)
• [BUILD] Filter metric headers files from opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk targets if metrics feature-flag is disabled (#806)
• [BUILD] Fix install rule for ostream exporter, Jaeger, ETW, ElasticSearch ([#805](Fix install rule for header files of ostream exporter))
• [API/SDK] ABI Breaking Change Switch from mpark::variant to absl::variant as default (#771)
• [API/SDK] ABI Breaking Change Support const char * as acceptable data type for attributes and resources (#771)
• [EXAMPLE] gRPC instrumentation example with context propagation (#729)

opentelemetry v0.7.0

v7 release:
Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger

Changelog:

• [METRICS] Move metrics api/sdk under preview feature flag (#745)
• [DOCS] Add instructions to build using Bazel (#747)
• [DOCS] Update copyright headers (#754)
• [EXPORTER] Populate resource to OTLP proto data (#758)
• [CI] Add CodeQL security scan CI workflow (#770)
• [BUILD] Enable building API only CMake Project (#778)
• [SDK] Fix for sampling of root span (#784)
• [CI] Add Jaeger exporter to CMake CI build (#786)
• [API] BREAKING CHANGE - Tracer::WithActiveSpan() to return Scope object intead of unique_ptr (#788)
• [DOCS] Add docs for nested spans and context propagation in readthedocs (#792)
• [CI] Output verbose error for failed unit-test in CI (#796)

opentelemetry v0.6.0

Alpha v6 release:
Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger

Changelog:

• [EXPORTER] Add Jaeger exporter (#534)
• [SDK] Support multiple processors (#692)
• [SDK] Add instrumentation library and multiple tracer support (#693)
• [SDK] Resource integration with Exporters (#706)
• [EXAMPLE] Enhance existing http example with propagation (#727)

opentelemetry v0.5.0

Alpha v5 release:
Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin

Changelog:

• [SDK] Support custom span-id and trace-id generator (#681)
• [SDK] Add SpanContext (and TraceState) to Recordable (#667)
• [SDK] Global Propagator (#668)
• [SDK] Create SharedContext for updating span pipeline (#650)
• [API] Baggage implementation (#676)
• [API] Move class from opentelemetry::core namespace to opentelemetry::common namespace (#686)

opentelemetry v0.4.0

Alpha v4 release:
Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin

Changelog:

• [EXPORTER] ETW Exporter enhancements (#519)
• [EXPORTER] Read Zipkin endpoint from environment variable. (#624)
• [EXPORTER] Split Zpages webserver hosting from Exporter (#626)
• [EXPORTER] ETW Exporter Usage Instructions (#628)
• [INSTRUMENTATION] HTTP Client/Server Instrumentation example (#632)
• [EXPORTER] Enable tls authentication for otlp grpc exporter ([#635](Enable tls authentication for otlp grpc exporter))
• [API] Refactoring trace_state to reuse common functionality in baggage (#638)

opentelemetry v0.3.0

Alpha v3 release:
Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin

Changelog:

• [EXPORTER] Added Zipkin Exporter. (#471)
• [API] Added Jaeger propagator. (#599)
• [PROPAGATOR] Added Composite Propagator (#597)
• [API] Propagate traceflag from parent (#603)
• [DOCS] Add sphinx support for api doc generation (595)
• [SDK] Add service.name if missing in Resource (#616)

opentelemetry v0.2.0

Alpha v2 release:
Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw

Changelog:

• [SDK] Added ForceFlush to TracerProvider. (#588).
• [SDK] Added Resource API. (#502)
• [API] Modified TraceState support for w3c trace context as per specs.
  (#551)
• [API] Added B3 Propagator. (#523)
• [Exporter] Added ETW Exporter. (#376)
• [CI] Enable cache for Bazel for faster builds. (#505)

Initial development release

Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp