Release v0.72.0

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• operator: Fixes inability of the operator to reconcile in stateful set mode when the immutable field volumeClaimTemplates is changed. If such change is detected, the operator will recreate the stateful set. (#1491)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• operator: Bump OpenTelemetry .NET Automatic Instrumentation to 0.6.0 (#1538)
• operator: Bump Kubernetes golang dependencies to 1.26.x (#1385)
• operator: Build operator, target-allocator and opAMP bridge with golang 1.20. (#1566)

🧰 Bug fixes 🧰

• Autoscaler: Fix the issue where HPA fails to update when an additional metric is added to the spec. (#1439)
• operator: The args created for corev1.container object is not ordered and creates a situation where there is a diff detected during reconcile. Forces an ordered args. (#1460)
• Autoscaler: Fix the issue where HPA fails to update autoscaler behavior. (#1516)
• operator: Set ServiceInternalTrafficPolicy`` to Local` when using daemonset mode. (#1401)

Components

• OpenTelemetry Collector - v0.72.0
• OpenTelemetry Contrib - v0.72.0
• Java auto-instrumentation - 1.23.0
• Dotnet auto-instrumentation - 0.6.0
• Node.JS - 0.34.0
• Python - 0.36b0