Release v1.18.0/v0.41.0/v0.0.6

[MrAlias]

This release drops the compatibility guarantee of Go 1.19.

Added

• Add WithProducer option in go.opentelemetry.op/otel/exporters/prometheus to restore the ability to register producers on the prometheus exporter's manual reader. (Add WithProducer to the prometheus exporter #4473)
• Add IgnoreValue option in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/metricdata/metricdatatest to allow ignoring values when comparing metrics. (Ignore value option for metricdatatest #4447)

Deprecated

• The NewMetricExporter in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/bridge/opencensus was deprecated in v0.35.0 (Update OpenCensus metric bridge to use the metric.Producer interface #3541).
  The deprecation notice format for the function has been corrected to trigger Go documentation and build tooling. (Fix bridge/opencensus NewMetricExporter deprecation notice #4470)

Removed

• Removed the deprecated go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/jaeger package. (Remove the deprecated Jaeger exporter and example #4467)
• Removed the deprecated go.opentelemetry.io/otel/example/jaeger package. (Remove the deprecated Jaeger exporter and example #4467)
• Removed the deprecated go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/aggregation package. (Remove the deprecated sdk/metric/aggregation package #4468)
• Removed the deprecated internal packages in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp and its sub-packages. (Remove the deprecated internal exporters/otlp* packages #4469)
• Dropped guaranteed support for versions of Go less than 1.20. (Drop support for Go 1.19 #4481)

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #4489 (30d2c8f) into main (ac4fca2) will not change coverage.
The diff coverage is 100.0%.

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  Coverage   81.3%   81.3%           
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  Files        220     220           
  Lines      17670   17670           
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  Hits       14378   14378           
  Misses      2992    2992           
  Partials     300     300           

Files Changed	Coverage
exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/version.go	100.0%
exporters/otlp/otlptrace/version.go	100.0%
sdk/metric/version.go	100.0%
sdk/version.go	100.0%
version.go	100.0%

[pellared]

Can we include this #4483 ?

[MrAlias]

Waiting on open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib#4295 to merge to reduce the time between this release and contrib.