chore: prepare next release

[opentelemetrybot]

1.27.0

🚀 (Enhancement)

• feat: add processors for adding session.id attribute to spans and logs #4972

🐛 (Bug Fix)

• fix(sdk-trace-base): avoid keeping non-string status.message on Span#setStatus() #4999 @pichlermarc
• fix(sdk-metrics): Add missing catch and handle error in promise of PeriodicExportingMetricReader #5006 @jj22ee
• fix(opentelemetry-core): confusing log extract of composite propagator #5017 @rv2673

🏠 (Internal)

• deps: set @opentelemetry/api dependency min version to 1.3.0 in examples, experimental/packages, integration-tests and selenium-tests
  #4992
• refactor(sdk-metrics): replace MetricsAttributes with Attributes #5021 @david-luna
• refactor(instrumentation-http): replace SpanAttributes and MetricsAttributes with Attributes #5023 @david-luna
• chore(exporter-zipkin): remove usages of Span constructor #5030 @david-luna
• test(instrumentation-http): remove usages of new Span in tests #5035 @david-luna

0.54.0

🚀 (Enhancement)

• feat(api-logs): Add delegating no-op logger provider #4861 @hectorhdzg
• feat(instrumentation-http): Add support for Semantic Conventions 1.27+ #4940 #4978 #5026 @dyladan
  • Applies to client and server spans and metrics
  • Generate spans and metrics compliant with Semantic Conventions 1.27+ when OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN contains http or http/dup
  • Generate spans and metrics backwards compatible with previous attributes when OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN contains http/dup or DOES NOT contain http

🐛 (Bug Fix)

• fix(sampler-jaeger-remote): fixes an issue where package could emit unhandled promise rejections @Just-Sieb
• fix(otlp-grpc-exporter-base): default compression to 'none' if env vars OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_COMPRESSION and OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_COMPRESSION are falsy @sjvans
• fix(sdk-events): remove devDependencies to old @opentelemetry/api-logs@0.52.0, @opentelemetry/api-events@0.52.0 packages #5013 @pichlermarc
• fix(sdk-logs): remove devDependencies to old @opentelemetry/api-logs@0.52.0 #5013 @pichlermarc
• fix(sdk-logs): align LogRecord#setAttribute type with types from @opentelemetry/api-logs@0.53.0 #5013 @pichlermarc
• feat(exporter--otlp-)!: rewrite exporter config logic for testability #4971 @pichlermarc
  • (user-facing) getDefaultUrl was intended for internal use has been removed from all exporters
  • (user-facing) getUrlFromConfig was intended for internal use and has been removed from all exporters
  • (user-facing) hostname was intended for internal use and has been removed from all exporters
  • (user-facing) url was intended for internal use and has been removed from all exporters
  • (user-facing) timeoutMillis was intended for internal use and has been removed from all exporters
  • (user-facing) onInit was intended for internal use and has been removed from all exporters
• fix(exporter--otlp-): fixes a bug where signal-specific environment variables would not be applied and the trace-specific one was used instead #4971 @pichlermarc
  • Fixes:
    • OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_COMPRESSION
    • OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_LOGS_COMPRESSION
    • OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE
    • OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_LOGS_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE
    • OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_CLIENT_KEY
    • OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_LOGS_CLIENT_KEY
    • OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_INSECURE
    • OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_LOGS_INSECURE
• feat(otlp-exporter-base)!: do not export functions that are intended for internal use #4971 @pichlermarc
  • Drops the following functions and types that were intended for internal use from the package exports:
    • parseHeaders
    • appendResourcePathToUrl
    • appendResourcePathToUrlIfNeeded
    • configureExporterTimeout
    • invalidTimeout
• fix(sdk-node): use warn instead of error on unknown OTEL_NODE_RESOURCE_DETECTORS values #5034
• fix(exporter-logs-otlp-proto): Use correct config type in Node constructor

🏠 (Internal)

• refactor(exporter-prometheus): replace MetricAttributes and MetricAttributeValues with Attributes and AttributeValues #4993

• refactor(browser-detector): replace ResourceAttributes with Attributes #5004

• refactor(sdk-logs): replace ResourceAttributes with Attributes #5005 @david-luna

[pichlermarc]

Looks like I wrote some not-very-robust assertions in the OTLP exporter tests. I'll follow up with a PR to fix this so we can release.

[pichlermarc]

#5068 will fix the failing tests here. :)
And also the changelog entries that I put in the wrong spot.