Version 1.36.0

SDK

Traces

• Lazily initialize the container for events in the SDK Span implementation (#6244)

Exporters

• Add basic proxy configuration to OtlpHttp{Signal}Exporters (#6270)
• Add connectTimeout configuration option OtlpGrpc{Signal}Exporters (#6079)

Extensions

• Add ComponentLoader to autoconfigure support more scenarios (#6217)
• Added MetricReader customizer for AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdkBuilder (#6231)
• Return AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdkBuilder instead of the base type (#6248)

Tooling

• Add note about draft PRs to CONTRIBUTING.md (#6247)

🙇 Thank you

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

@alexandru-roman-db
@asafm
@breedx-splk
@jack-berg
@jeanbisutti
@jkwatson
@johnbley
@lmolkova
@marcschumacher
@trask
@tydhot
@zeitlinger