Release v0.61.0

❌ Breaking Changes ❌

• Jaeger receiver no longer supports remote sampling. To be able to perform an update, it must be deactivated or replaced by a configuration of the jaegerremotesampling extension. It is important that the jaegerremotesampling extension and the jaegerreceiver do not use the same port. To increase the collector version afterwards, the update must be triggered again by restarting the operator. Alternatively, the OpenTelemetryCollector CRD can be re-created. (otel-contrib#14707)(open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#14707)

🚀 New components 🚀

• [HPA] Add targetCPUUtilization field to collector config (#1066, @moh-osman3)
• Extend otelcol crd with minimalistic ingress options (#1128, @frzifus)
• Reconcile otel collector on given context (#1144, @frzifus)
• Expose container ports on the collector pod (#1070, @kristinapathak)
• Add scrape configs endpoint (#1124, @jaronoff97)
• Add local arm build (#1157, @Efrat19)
• [HPA] Add targetCPUUtilization field to collector config (#1066, @moh-osman3)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• Validate all env. vars. before starting injecting env. vars (#1141, @avadhut123pisal)
• Update routine for migration of jaeger remote sampling in version 0.61.0 (#1116, @frzifus)
• Allow version before 0.52 to upgrade (#1126, @pureklkl)
• Set OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER to none to prevent using the default value (#1149, @aabmass)
• Change app image and context propagator b3 to b3multi in .Net e2e test case (#1151, @avadhut123pisal)
• Adds deepcopy missing implementation for TargetCPUUtilization field of AutoscalerSpec (#1138, @avadhut123pisal)
• Bump default python image version (#1150, @aabmass)
• Bump OTel python versions to 1.13.0 and 0.34b0 (#1147, @aabmass
• Change error logs to info for building container (#1146, @kristinapathak)
• Add missing nil checks in collector validating webhook (#1136, @kristinapathak)
• Fix lint issues in target allocator (#1090, @kristinapathak)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Fix generated deepcopy file changes check (#1154, @pavolloffay)
• Fix Target Allocator builds by using versions.txt (#1140, @jaronoff97)
• Add missing entry to 0.60.0 changelog (#1102, @pavolloffay)

OpenTelemetry Collector and Contrib

• OpenTelemetry Collector - v0.61.0
• OpenTelemetry Contrib - v0.61.0