1.15.0-RC1

⭐ New Features

• Further enhancement to OtlpMetricsSender #6025
• Make Prometheus Metric and Label naming conventions consistent #5923
• Metrics for Executors.newVirtualThreadPerTaskExecutor() #5488
• More flexible OTLP per meter configuration #6099
• Prometheus/OpenMetrics _created timestamp #2625
• Metrics for live virtual threads #5950

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Gauge double registration warning for Kafka metrics #5757
• Log warning about "function" meter re-registration #6070
• micrometer-observation-test brings unnecessary JUnit dependencies, leading to conflicts #6012

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@izeye