[IMPORTANT] Extending attribute value types is no longer a breaking change #4614
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### Entities - Specify entity information via an environment variable. ([#4594](#4594)) ### Common - OTLP Exporters may allow devs to prepend a product identifier in `User-Agent` header. ([#4560](#4560)) -⚠️ **IMPORTANT**: Extending the set of standard attribute value types is no longer a breaking change. ([#4614](#4614)) ### OTEPs - Clarify in Composite Samplers OTEP the unreliable threshold case. ([#4569](#4569)) --------- Co-authored-by: Armin Ruech <[email protected]>
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Towards #4602
Per OTEP: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/oteps/4485-extending-attributes-to-support-complex-values.md#why-doesnt-this-require-a-major-version-bump
This basically reverts:
Before we did not have a consensus to extend the attribute value types. However, this has changed with:
Related proto PR:
As a follow-up I plan to create issues in all language repositories so that they can prepare their APIs and SDKs to extend the attribute value types.