1.6.0 / 1.6.0-beta.1

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1.6.0 release for core components

Note: The below only shows the changes that were added to the core components post 1.6.0-rc.1 release. If you're interested in knowing all of the changes that went into 1.6.0 release, please go through the Release notes of all the previous pre-release versions for 1.6.0.

OpenTelemetry

• Increased the character limit of the Meter instrument name from 63 to 255.
  (#4774)

• Update default size for SimpleExemplarReservoir to 1.
  (#4803)

1.6.0-beta.1 release for non-core components

Note: Instrumentation libraries were not included for 1.6.0-beta.1.

OpenTelemetry.Shims.OpenTracing

• Fix: Do not raise ArgumentException if Activity behind the shim span
  has an invalid context.
  (#2787)
• Obsolete TracerShim(Tracer, TextMapPropagator) constructor.
  Provide TracerShim(TracerProvider)
  and TracerShim(TracerProvider, TextMapPropagator) constructors.
  (#4812)

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This discussion was created from the release 1.6.0 / 1.6.0-beta.1.