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Update module go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace to v1.47.0 [SECURITY] (main) - #3737
The AttributeValueLengthLimit span/log-record limit can be bypassed entirely with attribute values that consist of valid U+FFFD (REPLACEMENT CHARACTER) runes. The counting-based truncation introduced by the fix for GHSA-p9f8-wvj8-2fg8 (commit e016a78c9, first released in v1.33.0) has an "optimistic" fast path that skips every U+FFFD without counting it and without falling back to the correct slow path. A value of 1000 U+FFFD runes (3000 bytes) is stored verbatim even with a limit of 5 characters (15 bytes). The same defect affects the attribute truncation paths in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace (sdk/internal/attrnorm), go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log (sdk/log/internal/attrnorm), and the auto-instrumentation tracer in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace (trace/auto.go, introduced in v1.35.0).
This is an incomplete-fix issue: it is a distinct defect in the replacement code that GHSA-p9f8-wvj8-2fg8 introduced, affecting exactly the versions that advisory says are fixed (>= v1.33.0). The original advisory covers only the pre-v1.33.0 code.
Details
The shared truncation helper is generated from internal/shared/attrnorm/truncate.go.tmpl. In the v1.46.0 release, the generated copies are sdk/internal/attrnorm/truncate.go and sdk/log/internal/attrnorm/truncate.go (identical logic, different package names). The optimistic path (v1.46.0, sdk/internal/attrnorm/truncate.go:175-199) is:
// Optimistically, assume all valid UTF-8.varb strings.Buildercount:=0fori, c:=ranges {
ifc!=utf8.RuneError {
count++ifcount>limit {
returns[:i]
}
continue
}
_, size:=utf8.DecodeRuneInString(s[i:])
ifsize==1 {
// invalid encoding: fall through to the correct slow path...break
}
}
range over a string yields utf8.RuneError both for invalid bytes (size 1) and for a legitimately encoded U+FFFD (size 3). Only the size-1 case enters the slow path. A valid U+FFFD rune is therefore neither counted nor truncating: the loop slides over it. Consequences:
A value made only of valid U+FFFD runes never increments count, so no truncation ever triggers and the value is returned unchanged, whatever its length.
In a mixed string, every U+FFFD contributes 3 bytes that are not counted, and the final return s[:i] keeps all previously skipped U+FFFD runes, so the retained size grows linearly with the number of U+FFFD runes and is not bounded by limit.
The OpenTelemetry specification states that truncation applies "counting any character in it as 1". A valid U+FFFD is one character and must count as 1; here it counts as 0. The regression test suite of the repository contains no U+FFFD case, which is why this went unnoticed.
Deduplication: GHSA-p9f8-wvj8-2fg8 describes the pre-v1.33.0 helper (safeTruncateValidUTF8), which gave up truncating entirely for strings containing RuneError. The rewrite in e016a78c9 replaced that code; this report concerns the rewritten code, is present only in versions that the advisory lists as fixed, and no public issue or advisory describes it.
PoC
Minimal reproduction with the published release (no repository checkout needed). Go 1.25+ is required (the release declares go 1.25.0; any recent toolchain auto-selects one).
Create a directory with these files.
go.mod (then run go mod tidy once to fill go.sum):
package otelpoc
import (
"context""strings""testing""unicode/utf8""go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute"
sdktrace "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace""go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace/tracetest""go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace"
)
// limitsWithLen returns span limits with AttributeValueLengthLimit=limit and// everything else unlimited, isolating the length-limit enforcement under test.funclimitsWithLen(limitint) sdktrace.SpanLimits {
lim:=sdktrace.NewSpanLimits()
lim.AttributeValueLengthLimit=limitlim.AttributeCountLimit=-1lim.AttributePerEventCountLimit=-1lim.AttributePerLinkCountLimit=-1lim.EventCountLimit=-1lim.LinkCountLimit=-1returnlim
}
funccaptureOneSpan(t*testing.T, limitint, attrs...attribute.KeyValue) []attribute.KeyValue {
t.Helper()
sr:=tracetest.NewSpanRecorder()
tp:=sdktrace.NewTracerProvider(
sdktrace.WithSpanProcessor(sr),
sdktrace.WithSpanLimits(limitsWithLen(limit)),
)
deferfunc() { _=tp.Shutdown(context.Background()) }()
tr:=tp.Tracer("poc")
_, span:=tr.Start(context.Background(), "op")
span.SetAttributes(attrs...)
span.End()
ended:=sr.Ended()
iflen(ended) !=1 {
t.Fatalf("expected 1 ended span, got %d", len(ended))
}
returnended[0].Attributes()
}
// TestOT001_FFFDOnlyStringBypassesTraceLengthLimit demonstrates that a string// attribute composed of valid U+FFFD runes is stored completely untruncated// although AttributeValueLengthLimit=5.funcTestOT001_FFFDOnlyStringBypassesTraceLengthLimit(t*testing.T) {
constlimit=5val:=strings.Repeat("\uFFFD", 1000) // 1000 chars, 3000 bytesgot:=captureOneSpan(t, limit, attribute.String("k", val))
iflen(got) !=1 {
t.Fatalf("expected 1 attribute, got %d", len(got))
}
stored:=got[0].Value.AsString()
t.Logf("input: %d chars / %d bytes; stored: %d chars / %d bytes; limit=%d",
utf8.RuneCountInString(val), len(val),
utf8.RuneCountInString(stored), len(stored), limit)
// Per OTel spec ("counting any character in it as 1") the stored value// must be at most `limit` characters (<= 15 bytes for U+FFFD).ifmaxBytes:=3*limit; len(stored) >maxBytes {
t.Fatalf("BYPASS: AttributeValueLengthLimit=%d but %d bytes stored (expected <=%d)",
limit, len(stored), maxBytes)
}
}
// TestOT001_FFFDMixedStringOverRetains demonstrates that valid U+FFFD runes// are not counted in the optimistic truncation path: every U+FFFD adds 3// uncounted bytes to the retained value.funcTestOT001_FFFDMixedStringOverRetains(t*testing.T) {
constlimit=5val:=strings.Repeat("\uFFFD", 100) +strings.Repeat("A", 6) // 106 chars, 306 bytesgot:=captureOneSpan(t, limit, attribute.String("k", val))
stored:=got[0].Value.AsString()
t.Logf("input: %d chars / %d bytes; stored: %d chars / %d bytes; limit=%d",
utf8.RuneCountInString(val), len(val),
utf8.RuneCountInString(stored), len(stored), limit)
ifchars:=utf8.RuneCountInString(stored); chars>limit {
t.Fatalf("BYPASS: AttributeValueLengthLimit=%d but %d chars / %d bytes stored",
limit, chars, len(stored))
}
}
// TestOT001_ASCIIControl is the control case: plain ASCII over-limit values// ARE truncated, proving the length limit is active in the same setup.funcTestOT001_ASCIIControl(t*testing.T) {
constlimit=5val:=strings.Repeat("B", 20)
got:=captureOneSpan(t, limit, attribute.String("k", val))
stored:=got[0].Value.AsString()
t.Logf("input: %d chars / %d bytes; stored: %d chars / %d bytes; limit=%d",
utf8.RuneCountInString(val), len(val),
utf8.RuneCountInString(stored), len(stored), limit)
iflen(stored) !=limit {
t.Fatalf("control failed: ASCII value not truncated (stored %d bytes)", len(stored))
}
}
// TestOT001_EventAttributesNotLengthTruncated documents that span-event// attributes bypass AttributeValueLengthLimit entirely (no attrnorm.Truncate// call in recordingSpan.addEvent).funcTestOT001_EventAttributesNotLengthTruncated(t*testing.T) {
constlimit=5val:=strings.Repeat("C", 100)
sr:=tracetest.NewSpanRecorder()
tp:=sdktrace.NewTracerProvider(
sdktrace.WithSpanProcessor(sr),
sdktrace.WithSpanLimits(limitsWithLen(limit)),
)
deferfunc() { _=tp.Shutdown(context.Background()) }()
tr:=tp.Tracer("poc")
_, span:=tr.Start(context.Background(), "op")
span.AddEvent("ev", trace.WithAttributes(attribute.String("k", val)))
span.End()
ended:=sr.Ended()
events:=ended[0].Events()
iflen(events) !=1 {
t.Fatalf("expected 1 event, got %d", len(events))
}
stored:=events[0].Attributes[0].Value.AsString()
t.Logf("event attribute input: %d bytes; stored: %d bytes; limit=%d", len(val), len(stored), limit)
iflen(stored) >limit {
t.Logf("CONFIRMED: event attribute not length-truncated (%d bytes > limit %d)", len(stored), limit)
}
}
(The -run pattern above selects the three truncation cases plus the control; the fourth test function is included because it is part of the exact file that produced the output below - it compiles but is not selected by the pattern, and its output does not appear.)
go mod tidy
go test -count=1 -v -run "TestOT001_FFFDOnlyStringBypassesTraceLengthLimit|TestOT001_FFFDMixedStringOverRetains|TestOT001_ASCIIControl|TestOT001_FFFDOnlyStringBypassesLogLengthLimit" .
Expected output (captured against the published v1.46.0 modules; the three FAIL lines are the bypass being triggered and the PASS control proves the limit is active in the same setup; the only varying parts are the durations in parentheses and the total on the FAIL otelpoc summary line):
The mixed-string case stores 105 characters for a limit of 5: the 100 U+FFFD runes (300 uncounted bytes) are all retained, plus 5 of the 6 ASCII characters.
Impact
Applications that enable AttributeValueLengthLimit (or WithAttributeValueLengthLimit for logs) to bound attribute memory do not get that bound for values containing valid U+FFFD runes. Span and log-record attribute values are routinely derived from untrusted input (HTTP headers, request bodies, database fields), so an attacker can inflate per-span memory retention linearly, defeating the memory protection the operator explicitly enabled and accumulating increased memory usage over the span/log pipeline. Confidentiality and integrity are not affected.
Suggested fix
In the optimistic loop, count every rune of size > 1 (including the legitimately encoded U+FFFD) and only divert size-1 invalid bytes to the slow path. Add regression cases for: pure U+FFFD strings, U+FFFD-dominated mixed strings, and a truncation point landing after a U+FFFD (the current truncate_test.go has no U+FFFD case).
This release contains the first stable release of the OpenTelemetry Go Logs API and SDK.
Our project stability guarantees now apply to the following modules:
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log
See our versioning policy for more information about these stability guarantees.
Added
Add String method for KeyValue type in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute. (#8205)
Add String method for Set type in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute. (#8347)
Add WithMaxExportBatchSize to go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric to configure the maximum export batch size for PeriodicReader. (#8960)
Add WithAttributeValueDepthLimit, DefaultAttributeValueDepthLimit, and SpanLimits.AttributeValueDepthLimit in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace to configure the maximum depth of span, event, link, and instrumentation scope attribute values. (#8938)
Add WithAttributeValueDepthLimit in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log to configure the maximum depth of log record and instrumentation scope attribute values. (#8938)
Add WithMaxResponseSize to go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp. (#8941)
Add experimental *Binder extension interfaces in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/x for instruments that support binding attributes ahead of time. (#8760)
Add the experimental Finisher synchronous metric instrument extension interface to go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/x. (#8906)
Apply a maximum depth of 64 by default to span, event, link, log record, and instrumentation scope attribute values in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log. (#8938)
Reduce allocations when applying attribute value length limits in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log by rebuilding composite values only when truncation is needed. (#8912)
Decode traceparent using a hex lookup table in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation, which rejects the specification-disallowed upper-case characters without a separate scan of the header. (#8739)
Decode all characters at constant indices in TraceIDFromHex and SpanIDFromHex in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace to eliminate bounds checks. (#8740)
Fixed
Count valid U+FFFD replacement characters toward attribute value length limits in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log.
Truncate string attribute values to empty strings when the configured length limit is zero, including malformed UTF-8, in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log. (#9054)
Fix a data race in NewPeriodicReader where r.inst was assigned after the background goroutine was launched in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric. (#9028)
Prevent precision loss for large int64 values in Sum, Histogram, and ExponentialHistogram aggregations in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric. (#8981)
Ensure grpc.DialOption values passed via WithDialOption take precedence over conflicting internally-computed defaults in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploggrpc, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc. (#8805, #8834, #8836)
Treat overflowing OTEL_METRIC_EXPORT_INTERVAL and OTEL_METRIC_EXPORT_TIMEOUT values as invalid in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric. (#8800)
Prevent a panic in NewFixedSizeReservoir and FixedSizeReservoirProvider when given a negative size in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/exemplar; negative sizes are now clamped to zero, consistent with a size of zero. (#8832)
Preserve exponential histogram ZeroThreshold during OTLP metric export in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric. (#8801)
Ensure metric helpers in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.32.0, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.33.0, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.34.0 record measurements only once when no attributes are provided. (#8849)
Treat empty OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER and OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARG values as unset in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace. (#8873)
Normalize global OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT path joining in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp so trailing-slash base URLs do not produce double-slash log export paths. (#8864)
Prevent a deadlock when formatting an error passed to RecordError calls back into the span in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace. (#8815)
Prevent SimpleSpanProcessor.Shutdown from panicking when constructed with a nil exporter in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace. (#8844)
Propagate invalid exponential histogram scale errors to Prometheus exporter self-observability metrics in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus. (#8839)
Retain instrument advisory attributes configured with go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/x.WithDefaultAttributes when a matching View in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric does not specify an attribute filter. (#8859)
Ignore HTTP URL paths when building OTLP/gRPC metric exporter targets from OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT and OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_ENDPOINT, while preserving unix:// and unix-abstract:// targets; treat unix-abstract:// endpoints as insecure in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp. (#8862)
Ignore HTTP(S) paths when deriving gRPC trace exporter endpoints from OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT and OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc. (#8852)
Bound memory used while parsing dense W3C property metadata by storing it compactly and materializing Property values on demand in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation.
Removed
Remove the experimental OTEL_GO_X_METRIC_EXPORT_BATCH_SIZE environment variable in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric.
Use the WithMaxExportBatchSize option instead. (#8960)
What's Changed
Prevent panic in FixedSizeReservoir for negative sizes by @chiliec in #8832
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This PR contains the following updates:
v1.45.0→v1.47.0opentelemetry-go: AttributeValueLengthLimit is fully bypassed by attribute values composed of valid U+FFFD runes
CVE-2026-128085 / GHSA-q7gw-24fr-5p69
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Summary
The
AttributeValueLengthLimitspan/log-record limit can be bypassed entirely with attribute values that consist of valid U+FFFD (REPLACEMENT CHARACTER) runes. The counting-based truncation introduced by the fix for GHSA-p9f8-wvj8-2fg8 (commite016a78c9, first released in v1.33.0) has an "optimistic" fast path that skips every U+FFFD without counting it and without falling back to the correct slow path. A value of 1000 U+FFFD runes (3000 bytes) is stored verbatim even with a limit of 5 characters (15 bytes). The same defect affects the attribute truncation paths ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace(sdk/internal/attrnorm),go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log(sdk/log/internal/attrnorm), and the auto-instrumentation tracer ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace(trace/auto.go, introduced inv1.35.0).This is an incomplete-fix issue: it is a distinct defect in the replacement code that GHSA-p9f8-wvj8-2fg8 introduced, affecting exactly the versions that advisory says are fixed (>= v1.33.0). The original advisory covers only the pre-v1.33.0 code.
Details
The shared truncation helper is generated from
internal/shared/attrnorm/truncate.go.tmpl. In the v1.46.0 release, the generated copies aresdk/internal/attrnorm/truncate.goandsdk/log/internal/attrnorm/truncate.go(identical logic, different package names). The optimistic path (v1.46.0,sdk/internal/attrnorm/truncate.go:175-199) is:rangeover a string yieldsutf8.RuneErrorboth for invalid bytes (size 1) and for a legitimately encoded U+FFFD (size 3). Only the size-1 case enters the slow path. A valid U+FFFD rune is therefore neither counted nor truncating: the loop slides over it. Consequences:count, so no truncation ever triggers and the value is returned unchanged, whatever its length.return s[:i]keeps all previously skipped U+FFFD runes, so the retained size grows linearly with the number of U+FFFD runes and is not bounded bylimit.The OpenTelemetry specification states that truncation applies "counting any character in it as 1". A valid U+FFFD is one character and must count as 1; here it counts as 0. The regression test suite of the repository contains no U+FFFD case, which is why this went unnoticed.
Call chains (v1.46.0):
span.SetAttributes->sdk/trace/span.go(normAttr) ->attrnorm.Truncate->sdk/internal/attrnorm/truncate.go(truncate)Record.AddAttributes/SetAttributes->sdk/log/record.go(attrnorm.TruncateValue) ->sdk/log/internal/attrnorm/truncate.go(truncate)Deduplication: GHSA-p9f8-wvj8-2fg8 describes the pre-v1.33.0 helper (
safeTruncateValidUTF8), which gave up truncating entirely for strings containing RuneError. The rewrite ine016a78c9replaced that code; this report concerns the rewritten code, is present only in versions that the advisory lists as fixed, and no public issue or advisory describes it.PoC
Minimal reproduction with the published release (no repository checkout needed). Go 1.25+ is required (the release declares
go 1.25.0; any recent toolchain auto-selects one).Create a directory with these files.
go.mod(then rungo mod tidyonce to fillgo.sum):otelgo_truncate_test.go:(The
-runpattern above selects the three truncation cases plus the control; the fourth test function is included because it is part of the exact file that produced the output below - it compiles but is not selected by the pattern, and its output does not appear.)otelgo_log_truncate_test.go:Run:
Expected output (captured against the published v1.46.0 modules; the three FAIL lines are the bypass being triggered and the PASS control proves the limit is active in the same setup; the only varying parts are the durations in parentheses and the total on the
FAIL otelpocsummary line):The mixed-string case stores 105 characters for a limit of 5: the 100 U+FFFD runes (300 uncounted bytes) are all retained, plus 5 of the 6 ASCII characters.
Impact
Applications that enable
AttributeValueLengthLimit(orWithAttributeValueLengthLimitfor logs) to bound attribute memory do not get that bound for values containing valid U+FFFD runes. Span and log-record attribute values are routinely derived from untrusted input (HTTP headers, request bodies, database fields), so an attacker can inflate per-span memory retention linearly, defeating the memory protection the operator explicitly enabled and accumulating increased memory usage over the span/log pipeline. Confidentiality and integrity are not affected.Suggested fix
In the optimistic loop, count every rune of size > 1 (including the legitimately encoded U+FFFD) and only divert size-1 invalid bytes to the slow path. Add regression cases for: pure U+FFFD strings, U+FFFD-dominated mixed strings, and a truncation point landing after a U+FFFD (the current
truncate_test.gohas no U+FFFD case).Severity
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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go (go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace)
v1.47.0: /v0.69.0/v0.23.0/v0.1.0Compare Source
This release contains the first stable release of the OpenTelemetry Go Logs API and SDK.
Our project stability guarantees now apply to the following modules:
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/loggo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/logSee our versioning policy for more information about these stability guarantees.
Added
Stringmethod forKeyValuetype ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute. (#8205)Stringmethod forSettype ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute. (#8347)WithMaxExportBatchSizetogo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metricto configure the maximum export batch size forPeriodicReader. (#8960)WithAttributeValueDepthLimit,DefaultAttributeValueDepthLimit, andSpanLimits.AttributeValueDepthLimitingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/traceto configure the maximum depth of span, event, link, and instrumentation scope attribute values. (#8938)WithAttributeValueDepthLimitingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/logto configure the maximum depth of log record and instrumentation scope attribute values. (#8938)WithMaxResponseSizetogo.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp,go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp, andgo.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp. (#8941)ProbabilitySampleringo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace/xthat conforms to the OpenTelemetry specification's threshold-based sampling algorithm. (#8123)*Binderextension interfaces ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/xfor instruments that support binding attributes ahead of time. (#8760)Finishersynchronous metric instrument extension interface togo.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/x. (#8906)Changed
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/metricdata/metricdatatest. (#8993)go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/traceandgo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log. (#8938)go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/traceandgo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/logby rebuilding composite values only when truncation is needed. (#8912)traceparentusing a hex lookup table ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation, which rejects the specification-disallowed upper-case characters without a separate scan of the header. (#8739)TraceIDFromHexandSpanIDFromHexingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/traceto eliminate bounds checks. (#8740)Fixed
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace,go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace, andgo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log.go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace,go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace, andgo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log. (#9054)NewPeriodicReaderwherer.instwas assigned after the background goroutine was launched ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric. (#9028)int64values inSum,Histogram, andExponentialHistogramaggregations ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric. (#8981)grpc.DialOptionvalues passed viaWithDialOptiontake precedence over conflicting internally-computed defaults ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploggrpc,go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc, andgo.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc. (#8805, #8834, #8836)OTEL_METRIC_EXPORT_INTERVALandOTEL_METRIC_EXPORT_TIMEOUTvalues as invalid ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric. (#8800)NewFixedSizeReservoirandFixedSizeReservoirProviderwhen given a negative size ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/exemplar; negative sizes are now clamped to zero, consistent with a size of zero. (#8832)ZeroThresholdduring OTLP metric export ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric. (#8801)go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.32.0,go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.33.0, andgo.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.34.0record measurements only once when no attributes are provided. (#8849)OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLERandOTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARGvalues as unset ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace. (#8873)OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINTpath joining ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttpso trailing-slash base URLs do not produce double-slash log export paths. (#8864)RecordErrorcalls back into the span ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace. (#8815)SimpleSpanProcessor.Shutdownfrom panicking when constructed with a nil exporter ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace. (#8844)go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus. (#8839)go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/x.WithDefaultAttributeswhen a matching View ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metricdoes not specify an attribute filter. (#8859)OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINTandOTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_ENDPOINT, while preservingunix://andunix-abstract://targets; treatunix-abstract://endpoints as insecure ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpcandgo.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp. (#8862)OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINTandOTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINTingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc. (#8852)Propertyvalues on demand ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggageandgo.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation.Removed
OTEL_GO_X_METRIC_EXPORT_BATCH_SIZEenvironment variable ingo.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric.Use the
WithMaxExportBatchSizeoption instead. (#8960)What's Changed
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