chore: release SDK 1.17.1/Experimental 0.44.0

[pichlermarc]

1.17.1

🐛 (Bug Fix)

• fix(sdk-trace-base): BatchSpanProcessor flushes when maxExportBatchSize is reached #3958 @nordfjord
• fix(sdk-metrics): allow instrument names to contain '/' #4155
• fix(sdk-metrics): prevent per-reader storages from keeping unreported accumulations in memory #4163 @pichlermarc
  • fixes a memory leak which occurred when two or more MetricReader instances are registered to a MeterProvider
• fix(sdk-metrics): do not report empty scopes and metrics #4135 @pichlermarc
  • Instruments that were created, but did not have measurements will not be exported anymore
  • Meters (Scopes) that were created, but did not have any instruments with measurements under them will not be exported anymore.
• fix(exporter-zipkin): round duration to the nearest int in annotations to be compliant with zipkin protocol #4167 @FelipeEmerim

📚 (Refine Doc)

• docs(contributing): added guidelines for adding benchmark tests #4169

🏠 (Internal)

• test: added a performance benchmark test for span creation #4105
• test: added a workflow to run performance benchmark tests automatically #4144

Experimental 0.44.0

💥 Breaking Change

• fix(exporter-logs-otlp-proto): change OTLPLogExporter to OTLPLogExporter #4140 @Vunovati
• fix(sdk-node): remove explicit dependency on @opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger
  • '@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger' is no longer be a dependency of this package. To continue using '@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger', please install it manually.
    • NOTE: @opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger is deprecated, consider switching to one of the alternatives described here
• fix(sdk-logs): hide internal methods with internal shared state #3865 @legendecas

🚀 (Enhancement)

• feat(exporter-metrics-otlp-proto): add esm build #4099 @pichlermarc
• feat(opencensus-shim): implement OpenCensus metric producer #4066 @aabmass

🐛 (Bug Fix)

• fix(otlp-exporter-base): replaced usage of window with _globalThis #4157 @cristianmadularu
• fix(otlp-transformer): Avoid precision loss when converting from HrTime to unix nanoseconds. #4062

[weyert]

Don't we want to include this #4163 in this release?

[pichlermarc]

Don't we want to include this #4163 in this release?

I'd like to, but it will depend on if there are enough reviews for it by the time this is approved. We can get 1.17.1/0.44.0 out and then release a patch version next week.

[codecov]

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[legendecas]

#4163 is approved.