OpenTelemetry - CNCF/opentelemetry-collector: Release v0.16.0

Name: opentelemetry-collector

Owner: OpenTelemetry - CNCF

Release: Release version 0.16.0

Released: 2020-12-02

License: Apache-2.0

Release Assets:

• checksums.txt

• otel-collector-0.16.0-1.arm64.rpm

• otel-collector-0.16.0-1.x86_64.rpm

• otel-collector-0.16.0-amd64.msi

• otel-collector_0.16.0_amd64.deb

• otel-collector_0.16.0_arm64.deb

• otelcol_darwin_amd64

• otelcol_linux_amd64

• otelcol_linux_arm64

• otelcol_windows_amd64.exe

v0.16.0 Beta

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• Rename Push functions to be consistent across signals in exporterhelper (#2203)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Change default OTLP/gRPC port number to 4317, also continue receiving on legacy port 55680 during transition period (#2104).
• kafka exporter: Add support for exporting metrics as otlp Protobuf. (#1966)
• Move scraper helpers to its own scraperhelper package (#2185)
• Add componenthelper package to help build components (#2186)
• Remove usage of custom init/stop in scraper and use start/shutdown from component (#2193)
• Add more trace annotations, so zpages are more useful to determine failures (#2206)
• Add support to skip TLS verification (#2202)
• Expose non-nullable metric types (#2208)
• Expose non-nullable elements from slices of pointers (#2200)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Change InstrumentationLibrary to be non-nullable (#2196)
• Add support for slices to non-pointers, use non-nullable AnyValue (#2192)
• Fix --set flag to work with {} in configs (#2162)