Release v0.44.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.44.0
• Deprecate otelcol status messages (#733, @pavolloffay)
• Make sure correct version of operator-sdk is always used (#728, @pavolloffay)
• Storing upgrade status into events (#707, @yuriolisa)
• Bump default java auto-instrumentation version to 1.11.1 (#731, @pavolloffay)
• Add status fields for instrumentation kind (#717, @frzifus)
• Add appProtocol for otlp and jaeger receiver parsers (#704, @binjip978)
• Add SPLUNK_ env prefix support to Instrumentation kind (#709, @elvis-cai)
• Fix logger in instrumentation webhook (#698, @pavolloffay)

Release v0.43.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.43.0
• Upgrade to 0.43.0 will move the metrics CLI arguments into the config, in response to (#680, @yuriolisa)
• Add unique label and selector for operator objects (#697, @pavolloffay)
• Bump operator-sdk to 1.17 (#692, @pavolloffay)
• Update java instrumentation to 1.10.1 (#688, @anuraaga)
• Update nodejs instrumentation to 0.27.0 (#687, @anuraaga)
• Update python instrumentation to 0.28b1 (#686, @anuraaga)
• Add b3, jaeger, ottrace propagators to python instrumentation (#684, @anuraaga)
• Add env support to instrumentation kind (#674, @Duncan-tree-zhou)
• Fix collector config update (#670, @mcariapas)

Release v0.42.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.42.0
• Parse flags before using them in config (#662, @rubenvp8510)
• Fix port derivation (#651, @yuriolisa)
• Remove publishing operator image to quay.io (#661, @pavolloffay)
• Use target allocator from GHCR (#660, @pavolloffay)

Release v0.41.1

• Add support for nodejs and python image defaulting and upgrade (#607, @pavolloffay)
• Bugfix for kubeletstats receiver operator is exposing the service port, ignore port exposition as it is a scraper (#558, @mritunjaysharma394)

Release v0.41.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.41.0
• Support OpenTelemetryCollector.Spec.UpgradeStrategy with allowable values: automatic, none (#620, @adriankostrubiak-tomtom)
• Limit names and labels to 63 characters (#609, @mmatache)
• Support healthz and readyz probes to controller manager (#603, @adriankostrubiak-tomtom)

Release v0.40.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.40.0 (#585, @yuriolisa)
• Support K8s liveness probe to otel collector, if health_check extension is defined in otel collector config (#574, @adriankostrubiak-tomtom)

Release v0.39.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.39.0 (#579, #578, @VineethReddy02 )
• Upgrade path for Instrumentation kind (#548, @pavolloffay)
• Auto-instrumentation support for python (#532, @anuraaga)
• Support for PodSecurityContext in OpenTelemetry collector (#469, @ekarlso)
• Java auto-instrumentation support is bumped to 1.7.2 (#549, @pavolloffay)
• Auto-instrumentation support for nodejs (#507, @anuraaga)
• Sampler configuration support in instrumentation kind (#514, @pavolloffay)

Release v0.38.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.38.0
• Initial support for auto-instrumentation at the moment supported only for Java (#464, @pavolloffay)

Release v0.37.1

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.37.1

Release v0.37.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.37.0