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CHANGELOG.md

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 ### Bug fixes
 
-* Update CODEOWNERS - remove TimothyMothra
-  ([#4225](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4225))
-* Remove Develocity Gradle plugin
-  ([#4230](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4230))
-* Bump Netty
-  ([#4231](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4231))
-* Update CI from retired Windows 2019 image to Windows 2022
-  ([#4262](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4262))
-* Faster smoke tests
-  ([#4272](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4272))
-* Fix flaky live metrics smoke test
-  ([#4275](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4275))
-* Fix ErrorProne 2.38.0 build failures by updating checker configuration
-  ([#4257](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4257))
-* Fix SpotBugs 6.2.1 compatibility by configuring tasks to ignore missing class failures
-  ([#4252](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4252))
-* Only run CodeQL on pushes to main
-  ([#4316](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4316))
-* Hopefully resolve sporadic test failure
-  ([#4309](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4309))
-* Update HttpClients smoke test to use new assertion framework
-  ([#4269](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4269))
-* Fix ConcurrentModificationException in LiveMetricsVerifier by using CopyOnWriteArrayList
-  ([#4328](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4328))
-* Add xiang17 to CODEOWNERS
-  ([#4332](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4332))
-* Update Logback smoke tests to use new assertion framework
-  ([#4326](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4326))
-* Add copilot-instructions.md
-  ([#4321](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4321))
-* Update gitignore
-  ([#4333](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4333))
-* Change enforcedPlatform to platform
-  ([#4334](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4334))
-* Remove unused dependencies
-  ([#4335](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4335))
-* Simplify running against azure-monitor-opentelemetry-autoconfigure snapshots
-  ([#4336](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4336))
-* Improve snapshot testing
-  ([#4339](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4339))
-* Add spotlessApply to copilot instructions
-  ([#4341](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4341))
-* Add devcontainer configuration to reduce Copilot agent build time from 5+ minutes to under 1 minute
-  ([#4342](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4342))
-* Fix devcontainer
-  ([#4344](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4344))
-* Better devcontainer
-  ([#4349](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4349))
-* update gitignore
-  ([#4361](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4361))
-* Clean up README.md
-  ([#4360](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4360))
-* Simplify and use codespaces built-in prebuild feature
-  ([#4358](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4358))
-* Remove unused code
-  ([#4357](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4357))
-* Sync ErrorProne configuration with OpenTelemetry Java instrumentation
-  ([#4364](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4364))
-* Sync checkstyle configuration with OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation
-  ([#4365](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4365))
-* Sync spotless configuration with OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation
-  ([#4366](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4366))
-* Fix warning about toolchains
-  ([#4373](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4373))
-* Fix grpc smoke test deprecated class usage warnings
-  ([#4372](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4372))
-* Fix a few gradle warnings
-  ([#4375](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4375))
-* Suppress warnings for some safe operations
-  ([#4371](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4371))
-* Update Gradle to latest version 8.14.3
-  ([#4345](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4345))
-* Update to OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation 2.18.1
-  ([#4378](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4378))
-* Fix a couple more gradle deprecations
-  ([#4367](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4367))
 * Fix deprecated EnvironmentResourceProvider reference
   ([#4377](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4377))
-* Fix missing javadoc warnings
-  ([#4374](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4374))
-* Fix more Java warnings
-  ([#4376](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4376))
-* Bump version
-  ([#4380](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4380))
-* Port two suggestions from 3305
-  ([#4381](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4381))
+* Add smoke tests for null messages. This was initiated here but fixed in
+  the other repository's azure-monitor-opentelemetry-autoconfigure package.
+  ([#4314](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/pull/4314))
 
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