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 ## Unreleased
 
+## v0.53.0
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+This Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector release includes changes from the [opentelemetry-collector v0.53.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/releases/tag/v0.53.0) and the [opentelemetry-collector-contrib v0.53.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/releases/tag/v0.53.0) releases.
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 ### 🚀 New components 🚀
 
 - [`k8sevents` receiver](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/k8seventsreceiver)
   to collect Kubernetes events in OpenTelemetry semantics (#1641)
+- **Experimental**: [`pulsar` exporter](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/tree/main/internal/exporter/pulsarexporter) to export metrics to Pulsar (#1683)
 
 ## v0.52.2