Merge branch 'main' into feat/meter-configurator

Author: xrmx

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -12,14 +12,20 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- `opentelemetry-sdk`: Add `create_resource` and `create_propagator`/`configure_propagator` to declarative file configuration, enabling Resource and propagator instantiation from config files without reading env vars
+  ([#4979](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4979))
+- `opentelemetry-sdk`: Map Python `CRITICAL` log level to OTel `FATAL` severity text per the specification
+  ([#4984](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issues/4984))
 - `opentelemetry-sdk`: Add file configuration support with YAML/JSON loading, environment variable substitution, and schema validation against the vendored OTel config JSON schema
   ([#4898](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4898))
 - Fix intermittent CI failures in `getting-started` and `tracecontext` jobs caused by GitHub git CDN SHA propagation lag by installing contrib packages from the already-checked-out local copy instead of a second git clone
   ([#4958](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4958))
 - `opentelemetry-sdk`: fix type annotations on `MetricReader` and related types
   ([#4938](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4938/))
-- Implement log creation metric
+- `opentelemetry-sdk`: implement log creation metric
   ([#4935](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4935))
+- `opentelemetry-sdk`: implement metric reader metrics
+  ([#4970](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4970))
 - `opentelemetry-sdk`: upgrade vendored OTel configuration schema from v1.0.0-rc.3 to v1.0.0
   ([#4965](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4965))
 - improve check-links ci job
@@ -34,6 +40,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   ([#4910](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4910))
 - `opentelemetry-sdk`: Implement experimental Meter configurator
   ([#4966](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4966))
+- Add configurable `max_export_batch_size` to OTLP HTTP metrics exporter
+  ([#4576](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4576))
 
 ## Version 1.40.0/0.61b0 (2026-03-04)
 
@@ -194,7 +202,6 @@ the OTLP `LogHandler` remains attached to the root logger. Fix a bug that
 can cause a deadlock to occur over `logging._lock` in some cases ([#4636](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4636)).
 - otlp-http-exporter: set default value for param `timeout_sec` in `_export` method
   ([#4691](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4691))
-
 - Update OTLP gRPC/HTTP exporters: calling shutdown will now interrupt exporters that are sleeping
   before a retry attempt, and cause them to return failure immediately.
   Update BatchSpan/LogRecordProcessors: shutdown will now complete after 30 seconds of trying to finish