Release v1.16.0/v0.39.0 -- Stable Metric API

[MrAlias]

This release contains the first stable release of the OpenTelemetry Go metric API. Our project stability guarantees now apply to the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric package. See our versioning policy for more information about these stability guarantees.

Added

• The go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.19.0 package. The package contains semantic conventions from the v1.19.0 version of the OpenTelemetry specification. (Add semconv/v1.19.0 #3848)
• The go.opentelemetry.io/otel/semconv/v1.20.0 package. The package contains semantic conventions from the v1.20.0 version of the OpenTelemetry specification. (Add semconv/v1.20.0 #4078)

Changed

• Use strings.Cut() instead of string.SplitN() for better readability and memory use. (Use strings.Cut() instead of string.SplitN() #4049)

Removed

• The deprecated go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/instrument package is removed. Use go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric instead. (Remove the deprecated metric/instrument package #4055)

Fixed

• Fix build for BSD based systems in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource. (sdk/resource: Fix build for BSD OSes #4077)

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Codecov Report

Merging #4100 (a88b2e2) into main (3fca55a) will increase coverage by 0.0%.
The diff coverage is 100.0%.

Additional details and impacted files

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##            main   #4100   +/-   ##
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  Coverage   83.3%   83.3%           
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  Files        181     181           
  Lines      13925   13925           
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+ Hits       11608   11612    +4     
+ Misses      2096    2092    -4     
  Partials     221     221           

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/version.go	100.0% <100.0%> (ø)
exporters/otlp/otlptrace/version.go	100.0% <100.0%> (ø)
sdk/metric/version.go	100.0% <100.0%> (ø)
sdk/version.go	100.0% <100.0%> (ø)
version.go	100.0% <100.0%> (ø)

... and 1 file with indirect coverage changes

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