opentelemetry v1.2.0

v1.2.0 release

Release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger ( thrift + UDP/HTTP )

Changelog

API

• Allow to use external abseil for bazel targets (#1172)

Exporters

• InMemorySpanExporter shutdown fix (#1161)
• Fix leak in Jaeger exporter (#1160)
• Importing gsl::span if std::span is not available (#1167)
• Synchronized calls to Exporter::Export & Shutdown (#1164)
• OTLP http exporter block thread (#1163)

Experimental features

• Logger: propagating resources through LoggerProvider (#1154)
• Logger: support for instrumentation library (#1149)
• Add log level for internal log of sdk (#1147)
• Metrics SDK: View API (#1110)

Notes on experimental features:

#1149 and #1154 from above list introduced API changes which are not backward compatible with previous logs, please update API package to this release if ENABLE_LOGS_PREVIEW is turned on (it is turned off by default).

opentelemetry v1.1.1

v1.1.1 release

Release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger ( thrift + UDP/HTTP )

Changelog

SDK

• Rename OTEL_CPP_GET_ATTR macro, and define it using fully qualified attr function (#1140)
• Default resource attributes and attributes in OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES are missing when using Otlp*LogExporter (#1082)

Exporters

• Add OTLP/gRPC Log Exporter (#1048)
• Add OTLP/HTTP Log Exporter (#1030)
• [EXPORTER] ZipkinExporter shutdown (#1153)
• [EXPORTER] Jaeger exporter shutdown (#1150)
• [EXPORTER] Bugfix: jaeger::TUDPTransport::write crash when getaddrinfo returns error (#1116)
• [EXPORTER] Bugfix: Jaeger exporter: extend supported attributes types (#1106)
• [EXPORTER] Fix otlp generates null span ids (#1113)
• [EXPORTER] Jaeger bazel (Linux only) (#1077)

Build

• Mark tags to bazel targets (#1075)

Docs

• Add note on DLL support (#1137)
• Improve the instructions for Bazel build (#1136)
• Document dependencies (#1119)
• Dockerfile for quick demo/troubleshooting purpose (#905)

Example

• OTLP gRPC log example (#1083)

Metrics

• Add Meter and MeterProvider in the SDK (#1078)

opentelemetry v1.1.0

v1.1.0 release

Release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger ( thrift + UDP/HTTP )

Changelog

SDK

• Bugfix: regex is neither working on GCC 4.9.x (#1069)
• Improvement: span_id should not break strict aliasing. (#1068)
• OTLP gRPC log export should fail after shutdown (#1064)
• [SDK] fix: issue 368- consistent namespace scope resolution (#1008)

OTLP

• checkout opentelemetry-proto v0.11.0 (#1055)

OTLP Log Exporter (preview)

• Add OTLP/gRPC Log Exporter (#1048)
• Add OTLP/HTTP Log Exporter (#1030)

Prometheus Exporter

• Prometheus Exporter (#1031)

Build

• Build release tarball when nlohmann-json not installed (#1074)
• Build OTLP exporter from the release tarball (#1056)

Example

• OTLP HTTP log example (#1062)

Metrics

• Move old metrics implementation to different directory, and rename targets to _deprecated (#1053)

opentelemetry v1.0.1

v1.0.1 release

Release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger ( thrift + UDP/HTTP )

Changelog

API

• 🚀 Adding new Logger:log() method (#1005)

SDK

• 🚀 Add schema_url support to both Resource and InstrumentationLibrary (#979)

ETW Exporter

• 🚀 Exports span attributes to ETW (#1021)
• 🚀 ETW Log Exporter (#1006)

OTLP Exporter

• Change OTLP/HTTP default port from 4317 to 4318 (#1018)
• 🐛 Remove scheme from OTLP endpoint before passing to gRPC (#988)
• 🚀 Support environment variables for both OtlpGrpcExporter and OtlpHttpExporter (#983)

BUILD

• cmake: Add FindThrift.cmake find module method for thrift (#1020)
• Fix nlohmann_json package dependency (#1017)
• Update opentelemetry-proto for bazel build to 0.9.0 (#984)
• Cross compling grpc_cpp_plugin not found bug (#982)
• 🐛 Fix build issue where memcpy was not declared in scope (#985)

opentelemetry v1.0.0

v1.0.0 release

Release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger ( thrift + UDP/HTTP )

Changelog

API

• Document DefaultSpan, remove DefaultTracer (#959)
• Separate baggage<->Context api from Baggage Propagator (#963)
• Remove unused public API to_span_ptr (#964)
• 💥 Make span context management public (#967)
• Support determining parent span from Context while creating new Span (#969)
• 💥 Traces: Add note on experimental semantic convention implementation, prefix semantics headers with experimental tag (#970)
• Increment OPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO to 1 (#980)

SDK

• Clean up GetEnvironmentVariable and remove unused variable under NO_GETENV (#976)
• 💥 Resources: Add note on experimental semantic convention implementation, prefix semantics headers with experimental tag (#970)

OTLP Exporter

• 🐛 Ignore status description if status code is not Error (#962)
• 💥 Make Otlp exporter configuration environment variables specs-compliant (#974)

Zipkin Exporter

• 🐛 Don't set parentId in case parentId is empty (#943)
• 🚀 Extend zipkin exporter with ability to provide headers (#951)

DOCS

• 📖 Add getting-started documentation for SDK: (#942)
• 📖 Remove unnecessary spaces and spelling of gRPC in README (#965)

BUILD

• Disable bazel build for gcc 4.8, upgrade versions for grpc(v1.39.1) and bazel(4.2.0), document bazel support (#953)
• Move CMake config template to cmake folder (#958)
• Enable CMake to search the new package variable <PackageName>_ROOT (#975)
• 🐛 Do not override CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD (#977)

🚧 Experiemental Features (Will change in future)

• Semantic Conventions for traces - As the specs is still experimental, the implementation will change in future.
• Semantic Convention for resource - As the specs is still experimental, the implementation will change in future.
• Logs and Metrics API & SDK - These are not compliant, and are behind feature flag. Not recommended to use for now.

opentelemetry v1.0.0-rc4

v1.0.0-rc4 release:
Release Candidate of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger ( thrift + UDP/HTTP )

Changelog:

• [EXPORTER] BREAKING CHANGE Fix default HTTP port for OTLP HTTP Exporter (#939)
• [API] Fix timeout calculation for Tracer::Flush() and Tracer::Close() (#937)
• [API] Fix for Stack::Resize that new_capacity is not assigned to capacity_ (#934)
• [SDK] Fix race condition in circular buffer simulation test (#931)
• [EXPORTER] Fix error logging in Jaeger Exporter (#930)
• [BUILD] Use latest grpc version (v1.39.0) for cmake build of otlp exporter (#927)
• [EXPORTER] Add Jaeger Thrift HTTP exporter (#926)
• [SDK] Move env-var read logic to common dir, and optional reading of env-var (#924)
• [EXPORTER] Remove recordable header from CMake install rules for exporters (#923)
• [EXPORTER] BREAKING CHANGE Rename Recordable to JaegerRecordable in Jaeger exporter (#919)
• [EXPORTER] BREAKING CHANGE Rename Jaeger exporter target (#918)
• [EXPORTER] Add Zipkin exporter example (#917)
• [EXPORTER] Bazel build for Zipkin exorter (#916)
• [BUILD] Allow to use local GSL (#915)
• [DOCS] Document vcpkg toolchain configuration (#913)
• [SDK] Fix for resource deletion after tracer provider shutdown (#911)
• [BUILD] Add bazel build for grpc example (#910)
• [EXPORTER] Add resource and instrumentation library support for OStreamSpanExporter (#906)
• [API] Adding semantic-convention attributes for trace (#868)

opentelemetry v1.0.0-rc3

v1.0.0-rc3 release:
Release Candidate of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger

Changelog:

• [DOCS] Add doxygen reference docs for SDK (#902)
• [EXPORTER] Jaeger Exporter - Populate resource attributes into process tags in Jaeger (#897)
• [EXPORTER] Zipkin Exporter - Report Event timestamp into microseconds (#896)
• [EXPORTER] Jaeger Exporter - Handle span events (#895)
• [DOCS] Fix API docs for Scope object (#894)
• [BUILD] Fix Linking error for libcurl on some macOS environments (#893)
• [API] Context cleanup from Runtime Storage (#885)
• [DOCS] Document strategy to avoid conflict between two different versions of Abseil (#883)
• [EXPORTER] ETW Exporter - Document example for ETW Exporter (#882)
• [SDK] Create Span with Valid spanId and traceId irrespective of Sampling decision (#879)
• [EXPORTER] Jaeger Exporter - Rename bswap macros to avoid clash on some systems (#876)
• [API] Add Semantics Conventions attributes for Resources (#872)
• [BUILD] Use nlohmann-json from submodules if not already installed (#870)

opentelemetry v1.0.0-rc2

v1.0.0-rc2 release:
Release Candidate of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp ( gRPC + HTTP/JSON )
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger

Changelog:

• [EXPORTER] Jaeger Exporter - Support for Instrumentation Library (#864)
• [TESTS] Adding benchmark tests for baggage api (#861)
• [BUILD] Fix for GCC9/C++20 Support for using STL for modern C++ features (#860)
• [TESTS] Adding benchmark tests for span create api (#856)
• [BUILD] Fix for using Abseil library for modern C++ features (#850)
• [BUILD] Fix issues with win32/x86 compilation (#847)
• [DOCS] Document OSS dependencies and their licenses (#844)
• [BUILD] Various fixes to build with Visual Studio 2015 (#840)
• [INSTRUMENTATION] HTTPClient: Change support for full URL argument (#833)
• [EXPORTER] Jaeger Exporter - fix endianness of Jaeger IDs for transmission (#832)
• [INSTRUMENTATION] fix protobuf compilation warning in gRPC example (#830)
• [EXPORTER] BREAKING CHANGE - Add OTLP/HTTP+JSON Protocol exporter; Rename OtlpExporter to OtlpGrpcExporter (#810)

opentelemetry v1.0.0-rc1

v1.0.0-rc1 release:
Release Candidate of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger

Changelog:

• [BUILD] Enable Jaeger exporter build in Windows (#815)
• [DOCS] Versioning doc update to clarify release and versioning policy (#811)
• [LOGS] Breaking Change Move Logging implementation under feature-flag (#807)
• [BUILD] Filter metric headers files from opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk targets if metrics feature-flag is disabled (#806)
• [BUILD] Fix install rule for ostream exporter, Jaeger, ETW, ElasticSearch ([#805](Fix install rule for header files of ostream exporter))
• [API/SDK] ABI Breaking Change Switch from mpark::variant to absl::variant as default (#771)
• [API/SDK] ABI Breaking Change Support const char * as acceptable data type for attributes and resources (#771)
• [EXAMPLE] gRPC instrumentation example with context propagation (#729)

opentelemetry v0.7.0

v7 release:
Alpha release of core packages:

• opentelemetry-api
• opentelemetry-sdk

and exporter packages:

• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
• opentelemetry-exporter-etw
• opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin
• opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger

Changelog:

• [METRICS] Move metrics api/sdk under preview feature flag (#745)
• [DOCS] Add instructions to build using Bazel (#747)
• [DOCS] Update copyright headers (#754)
• [EXPORTER] Populate resource to OTLP proto data (#758)
• [CI] Add CodeQL security scan CI workflow (#770)
• [BUILD] Enable building API only CMake Project (#778)
• [SDK] Fix for sampling of root span (#784)
• [CI] Add Jaeger exporter to CMake CI build (#786)
• [API] BREAKING CHANGE - Tracer::WithActiveSpan() to return Scope object intead of unique_ptr (#788)
• [DOCS] Add docs for nested spans and context propagation in readthedocs (#792)
• [CI] Output verbose error for failed unit-test in CI (#796)