This release targets the OpenTelemetry SDK 1.53.0.

Note that many artifacts have the `-alpha` suffix attached to their version number, reflecting that they are still alpha quality and will continue to have breaking changes. Please see the [VERSIONING.md](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/blob/main/VERSIONING.md#opentelemetry-java-instrumentation-versioning) for more details.

 ### 📈 Enhancements

- Align WildFly metrics with semantic conventions ([#14208](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14208))
- Add streaming chat instrumentation for OpenAI SDK ([#14271](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14271))
- Add OpenAI async client instrumentation support ([#14322](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14322))
- Add embeddings instrumentation for OpenAI client ([#14353](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14353))
- Support OpenAI 3.0 ([#14423](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14423))

### 🛠️ Bug fixes

- Fix OpenTelemetryDataSource error when refresh configuration ([#14255](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14255))
- Fix NPE when consuming Kafka messages with null headers ([#14332](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14332))
- Fix RxJava context propagation for ObservableFromCallable ([#14393](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14393))
- Avoid test failures on Spring Boot 4-m1 ([#14420](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14420))

### 🧰 Tooling

- Add support for extensions in attributesExtractors, contextCustomizers, operationListeners and spanNameExtractor ([#13917](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/13917))
- Add declarative config early initialization and property mapping support ([#14184](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14184))
- Add consistent exclusion of boot libraries ([#14306](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14306))
- Build smoke-test-fake-backend Docker image for ARM64 architecture ([#14387](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14387))
- Implement all JUL Logger methods in PatchLogger ([#14409](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14409))

### 🙇 Thank you

This release was possible thanks to the following contributors who shared their brilliant ideas and awesome pull requests:

@Algieba4
@anuraaga
@asweet-confluent
@breedx-splk
@charlie-world
@copilot-pull-request-reviewer
@danielgblanco
@iNikem
@jaydeluca
@JonasKunz
@kkz-01
@laurit
@Munken
@mznet
@pepeshore
@PeterF778
@robsunday
@steverao
@SylvainJuge
@trask
@xiangtianyu
@zeitlinger