Observability

OpenTelemetry: what changed

In the last 90 days, 14 summarized changes: 3 deprecations, 2 keynotes, 9 releases. Stackdiff reads OpenTelemetry's own feeds (opentelemetry.io) and writes two sentences per change with a link to the source; it never republishes release notes. Sources last checked .

Latest changes

Newest first, every type. Releases and fixes sit below anything that can hurt you in the weekly brief; here they are in order.

News
Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation
News
Inside the LLM Call: GenAI Observability with OpenTelemetry
1.66.0Deprecatedmedium
v1.66.0/v0.160.0
0.160.0Release
scraper/scrapertest/v0.160.0
0.160.0Release
scraper/scraperhelper/xscraperhelper/v0.160.0
0.160.0Release
service/hostcapabilities/v0.160.0
0.160.0Release
service/v0.160.0
0.160.0Release
scraper/xscraper/v0.160.0
0.160.0Release
service/telemetry/telemetrytest/v0.160.0
0.160.0Release
receiver/xreceiver/v0.160.0
0.160.0Release
scraper/v0.160.0
0.160.0Release
scraper/scraperhelper/v0.160.0
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OpenTelemetry Go Logs API and SDK reach release candidate status
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What can you do with OpenTelemetry entity events?
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Metric cardinality limits in OpenTelemetry: a practical guide
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We broke the OTel demo
Keynote
OpenTelemetry @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026
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One-command OpenTelemetry setup on Linux hosts
Keynote
Announcing v1 of OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time Instrumentation
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Lambda-powered functions land in OTTL
Deprecatedmedium
CocoaPods Deprecation Notice for OpenTelemetry Swift
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OpenTelemetry Has Graduated… Now what?
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The Voyage of a Small Environment Variable
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Call for Contributors: OpenTelemetry for Dart and Flutter
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Don't Wrap OpenTelemetry — You're Probably Hurting More Than Helping
Deprecatedmedium
Deprecating OpenCensus compatibility requirements
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OTel-Arrow Phase 2: From Efficient Transport to Efficient Telemetry Pipelines
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OpenTelemetry is a CNCF Graduated Project
Securitymedium
Applying OpenTelemetry Security Practices in Legacy Environments
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Introducing OTel Blueprints and Reference Implementations

Where Stackdiff reads OpenTelemetry

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