Merge pull request #3074 from microsoft/harskaur/changelog

Changelog & version bump for beta2 release

Author: harsimar

.props/_GlobalStaticVersion.props

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     <SemanticVersionMajor>3</SemanticVersionMajor>
     <SemanticVersionMinor>0</SemanticVersionMinor> <!-- If changing the Minor version, also update the Date value. -->
     <SemanticVersionPatch>0</SemanticVersionPatch>
-    <PreReleaseMilestone>beta1</PreReleaseMilestone> <!--Valid values for an Application Insights release: beta1, beta2, EMPTY for stable. If you build your application locally, you can use any value. -->
+    <PreReleaseMilestone>beta2</PreReleaseMilestone> <!--Valid values for an Application Insights release: beta1, beta2, EMPTY for stable. If you build your application locally, you can use any value. -->
     <PreReleaseMilestone Condition="'$(Redfield)' == 'True'">redfield</PreReleaseMilestone>
     <PreReleaseMilestone Condition="'$(NightlyBuild)' == 'True'">nightly</PreReleaseMilestone> <!-- Overwrite this property for nightly builds from the DEVELOP branch. -->
     <!--
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
       as it will restart file versions so 2.4.0-beta1 may have higher
       file version (like 2.4.0.2222) than 2.4.0-beta2 (like 2.4.0.1111)
     -->
-    <SemanticVersionDate>2025-12-05</SemanticVersionDate>
+    <SemanticVersionDate>2026-01-13</SemanticVersionDate>
 
     <!--
       BuildNumber uniquely identifies all builds (The max allowed value is UInt16.MaxValue = 65535).

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## Unreleased
+## Version 3.0.0-beta2
 ### Added
 - [Automatic configuration binding from "ApplicationInsights" section in appsettings.json for both AspNetCore and WorkerService packages with configuration precedence: environment variables > explicit configuration > appsettings.json](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet/pull/3064)
 - [Added support for Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) authentication using Azure.Core.TokenCredential](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet/pull/3054)
 - [Added Self Diagnostics feature](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet/pull/3070)
 - [Updated the default sampler from Fixed Rate to Rate-Limited Sampling.](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet/pull/3073)
 - [Update Azure Monitor Exporter to 1.6.0-beta.2](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet/pull/3073)
+- [Add comprehensive applicationinsights.config support](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet/pull/3069)
+- [Add properties in TelemetryConfiguration to configure underlying exporter](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet/pull/3065)
+
+### Bug fix
+- [Fix TrackMetric(MetricTelemetry) unsupported telemetry type error](https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet/pull/3071)
 
 ## Version 3.0.0-beta1
 - The following Application Insights packages in this repo now use OpenTelemetry internally. OpenTelemetry is the industry standard for telemetry collection and provides better interoperability with other observability tools.