chore: prepare next release

[marcpichler]

1.26.0

🚀 (Enhancement)

• feat: include instrumentation scope info in console span and log record exporters #4848 @blumamir
• feat(semconv): update semantic conventions to 1.27 (from 1.7.0) #4690 @dyladan
  • Exported names have changed to ATTR_{name} for attributes (e.g. ATTR_HTTP_REQUEST_METHOD), {name}_VALUE_{value} for enumeration values (e.g. HTTP_REQUEST_METHOD_VALUE_POST), and METRIC_{name} for metrics. Exported names from previous versions are deprecated.
  • Import @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions for stable semantic conventions. Import @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions/incubating for all semantic conventions, stable and unstable.
  • Note: Semantic conventions are now versioned separately from other stable artifacts, to correspond to the version of semantic conventions they provide.

🐛 (Bug Fix)

• fix(sdk-node): avoid spurious diag errors for unknown OTEL_NODE_RESOURCE_DETECTORS values #4879 @trentm
• deps(opentelemetry-instrumentation): Bump shimmer types to 1.2.0 #4865 @lforst

🏠 (Internal)

• refactor: Simplify the code for the getEnv function #4799 @danstarns

0.52.1

🚀 (Enhancement)

• refactor(instrumentation-fetch): move fetch to use SEMATRR #4632
• refactor(otlp-transformer): use explicit exports #4785 @pichlermarc

🐛 (Bug Fix)

• fix(sdk-node): register context manager if no tracer options are provided #4781 @pichlermarc
• fix(instrumentation): Update import-in-the-middle to fix numerous bugs #4806 @timfish
• chore(instrumentation): Use a caret version for import-in-the-middle dependency #4810 @timfish

🏠 (Internal)

• test: add npm run maint:regenerate-test-certs maintenance script and regenerate recently expired test certs #4777

[JamieDanielson]

This PR is so far a successful semconv release PR separate from the SDK release PR, using this command prepare_release:semconv:minor; action workflow here.

Next step is confirming a SDK release PR doesn't include semconv.

Then need to set proper version of the package.

[JamieDanielson]

Hmm, SDK release did bump package version of semantic conventions with the command prepare_release:sdk:minor; action workflow here. Next step is figure out why that wasn't excluded.

[JamieDanielson]

prepare_release:semconv:minor successful version bump (action workflow) 🎉

next step: prepare_release:semconv:minor to bump version and exclude semconv 🤞

[JamieDanielson]

🤔 prepare_release:sdk:minor still includes version bump for semantic conventions... but includes for experimental too? action workflow