⭐ New Features

• Fix escaping for Telegraf StatsD #6513
• Support compressing metrics payload in OtlpConfig and OtlpHttpMetricsSender #7009
• Time-windowed max gauge for OTLP histograms #6159

Deprecations

• Deprecate Dynatrace v1 support #6923
• Deprecate Apache HTTP client instrumentation in favor of httpclient5-observation #7158

📔 Documentation

• Document OtlpConfig#compressionMode #7108

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Bump com.google.auth:google-auth-library-oauth2-http from 1.41.0 to 1.42.1 #7110
• Bump com.google.cloud:google-cloud-monitoring from 3.82.0 to 3.84.0 #7149
• Bump com.google.cloud:libraries-bom from 26.73.0 to 26.75.0 #7150
• Bump com.netflix.spectator:spectator-reg-atlas from 1.9.3 to 1.9.4 #7160
• Bump dropwizard-metrics from 4.2.37 to 4.2.38 #7114
• Bump io.dropwizard.metrics5:metrics-core from 5.0.5 to 5.0.6 #7118
• Bump io.micrometer:context-propagation from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 #7175
• Bump software.amazon.awssdk:cloudwatch from 2.41.10 to 2.41.9 #7119

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:
@allnightlong, @BenEfrati, @pythaac, and @izeye