GO API Changelog

This changelog includes only developer-facing changes. If you are looking for user-facing changes, check out CHANGELOG.md.

v0.83.0

exporter/clickhouse: Change the type of Config.Password to be configopaque.String (#17273)
all: Remove go 1.19 support, bump minimum to go 1.20 and add testing for 1.21 (#8207)
solacereceiver: Move model package to the internal package (#24890)
receiver/statsdreceiver: Move protocol and transport packages to internal (#24892)
filterprocessor: Unexport Strict and Regexp (#24845)
mdatagen: Rename the mdatagen sum field aggregation to aggregation_temporality (#16374)
metricstransformprocessor: Unexport elements of the Go API of the processor (#24846)
mezmoexporter: Unexport the MezmoLogLine and MezmoLogBody structs (#24842)
pkg/stanza: Remove deprecated 'fileconsumer.FileAttributes' (#24688)
pkg/stanza: Remove deprecated 'fileconsumer.EmitFunc' (#24688)
pkg/stanza: Remove deprecated fileconsumer.Finder (#24688)
pkg/stanza: Remove deprecated fileconsumer.BaseSortRule and fileconsumer.SortRuleImpl (#24688)
pkg/stanza: Remove deprecated 'fileconsumer.Reader' (#24688)

pkg/stanza: Deprecate helper.Encoding and helper.EncodingConfig.Build (#24980)
pkg/stanza: Deprecate fileconsumer MatchingCriteria in favor of new matcher package (#24853)

changelog: Generate separate changelogs for end users and package consumers (#24014)
splunkhecexporter: Add heartbeat check while startup and new config param, heartbeat/startup (defaults to false). This is different than the healtcheck_startup, as the latter doesn't take token or index into account. (#24411)
k8sclusterreceiver: Allows disabling metrics and resource attributes (#24568)
cmd/mdatagen: Avoid reusing the same ResourceBuilder instance for multiple ResourceMetrics (#24762)

splunkhecreceiver: aligns success resp body w/ splunk enterprise (#19219) changes resp from plaintext "ok" to json {"text"："success", "code"：0}