OpenTelemetry - CNCF/opentelemetry-dotnet: Release core-1.8.0

Name: opentelemetry-dotnet

Owner: OpenTelemetry - CNCF

Release: core-1.8.0

Released: 2024-04-02

License: Apache-2.0

Release Assets:

If you're interested in knowing all of the changes that went into 1.8.0 release, please go through the release notes of all the previous pre-release versions for 1.8.0:

• https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/releases/tag/core-1.8.0-beta.1
• https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/releases/tag/core-1.8.0-rc.1

Changes in 1.8.0:

OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Console

• Added support for ActivitySource.Version property. (#5472)

OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol

• OtlpExporter will no longer throw an exception (even on .NET Core 3.1) when the System.Net.Http.SocketsHttpHandler.Http2UnencryptedSupport AppContext switch is NOT set AND using OtlpExportProtocol.Grpc to send to an insecure ("http") endpoint. System.Net.Http.SocketsHttpHandler.Http2UnencryptedSupport is not required to be set when using .NET 5 or newer. (#5486)

• Replaced environment variable OTEL_DOTNET_EXPERIMENTAL_OTLP_ENABLE_INMEMORY_RETRY with OTEL_DOTNET_EXPERIMENTAL_OTLP_RETRY. OTEL_DOTNET_EXPERIMENTAL_OTLP_RETRY when set to in_memory will enable automatic retries in case of transient failures during data export to an OTLP endpoint. (#5495)