Release 1.37.0

v1.37.0 (2024-09-13)

Traces

• Minor clarification on BatchExportingProcessor behavior.
  (#4164)
• Clarify SpanKind description, extend it to cover links, add examples of nested client spans.
  (#4178)

Metrics

• Clarify that Export MUST NOT be called by periodic exporting MetricReader concurrently.
  (#4206)

Logs

• Clarify that log record mutations are visible in next registered processors.
  (#4067)
• Clarify that Export MUST NOT be called by simple and batching processors concurrently.
  (#4173)

SDK Configuration

• Define instrumentation configuration API.
  (#4128)
• Mark exemplar filter env variable config as stable.
  (#4191)

Common

• Update instrumentation library guidance to avoid naming collisions between external and OTel instrumentations.
  (#4187)
• Add natively instrumented to glossary.
  (#4186)

New Contributors

• @javiergarea made their first contribution in #4182
• @carsonip made their first contribution in #4192