Version 1.26.0/0.47b0

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• Standardizing timeout calculation in measurement consumer collect to nanoseconds (#4074)
• optional scope attributes for logger creation (#4035)
• optional scope attribute for tracer creation (#4028)
• OTLP exporter is encoding invalid span/trace IDs in the logs fix (#4006)
• Update sdk process resource detector process.command_args attribute to also include the executable itself (#4032)
• Fix start_time_unix_nano for delta collection for explicit bucket histogram aggregation (#4009)
• Fix start_time_unix_nano for delta collection for sum aggregation (#4011)
• Update opentracing and opencesus docs examples to not use JaegerExporter (#4023)
• Do not execute Flask Tests in debug mode (#3956)
• When encountering an error encoding metric attributes in the OTLP exporter, log the key that had an error. (#3838)
• Fix ExponentialHistogramAggregation (#3978)
• Log a warning when a LogRecord in sdk/log has dropped attributes due to reaching limits (#3946)
• Fix RandomIdGenerator can generate invalid Span/Trace Ids (#3949)
• Add Python 3.12 to tox (#3616)
• Improve resource field structure for LogRecords (#3972)
• Update Semantic Conventions code generation scripts: - fix namespace exclusion that resulted in dropping os and net namespaces. - add Final decorator to constants to prevent collisions - enable mypy and fix detected issues - allow to drop specific attributes in preparation for Semantic Conventions v1.26.0 (#3973)
• Update semantic conventions to version 1.26.0. (#3964)
• Use semconv exception attributes for record exceptions in spans (#3979)
• Fix _encode_events assumes events.attributes.dropped exists (#3965)
• Validate links at span creation (#3991)
• Add attributes field in MeterProvider.get_meter and InstrumentationScope (#4015)
• Fix inaccessible SCHEMA_URL constants in opentelemetry-semantic-conventions (#4069)

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