Version 1.24.0

This release targets the OpenTelemetry SDK 1.24.0.

Maven extension

• [maven-extension] Emit a warning rather than failing the build with an exception on illegal state (#776)
• [maven-extension] Remove dependency to grpc-netty-shaded as opentelemetry-exporter-otlp pulls okhttp3 (#785)
• [maven-extension] Propagate OTel context to plugin mojos (#786)

🙇 Thank you

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

@breedx-splk
@cyrille-leclerc
@jack-berg
@jkwatson
@jsuereth
@kenfinnigan
@laurit
@mateuszrzeszutek
@rmfitzpatrick
@trask
@XN137
@zoranzaric-cpx