Release v0.41.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.41.0
• Support OpenTelemetryCollector.Spec.UpgradeStrategy with allowable values: automatic, none (#620, @adriankostrubiak-tomtom)
• Limit names and labels to 63 characters (#609, @mmatache)
• Support healthz and readyz probes to controller manager (#603, @adriankostrubiak-tomtom)

Release v0.40.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.40.0 (#585, @yuriolisa)
• Support K8s liveness probe to otel collector, if health_check extension is defined in otel collector config (#574, @adriankostrubiak-tomtom)

Release v0.39.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.39.0 (#579, #578, @VineethReddy02 )
• Upgrade path for Instrumentation kind (#548, @pavolloffay)
• Auto-instrumentation support for python (#532, @anuraaga)
• Support for PodSecurityContext in OpenTelemetry collector (#469, @ekarlso)
• Java auto-instrumentation support is bumped to 1.7.2 (#549, @pavolloffay)
• Auto-instrumentation support for nodejs (#507, @anuraaga)
• Sampler configuration support in instrumentation kind (#514, @pavolloffay)

Release v0.38.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.38.0
• Initial support for auto-instrumentation at the moment supported only for Java (#464, @pavolloffay)

Release v0.37.1

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.37.1

Release v0.37.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.37.0

Release v0.36.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.36.0
• Add envFrom to collector spec (#419, @ctison)
• Allow changing Pod annotations using podAnnotations (#451, @indrekj)

Release v0.35.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.35.0
• Target Allocator implementation (Part 3 - OTEL Operator Enhancements) (#389, @Raul9595)
• Target Allocator implementation (Part 2 - OTEL Operator Enhancements) (#354, @alexperez52)

Release v0.34.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.34.0
• Add AWS xray receiver (#421, @VineethReddy02)
• Add syslog, tcplog and udplog receivers (#425, @VineethReddy02)
• Add splunk hec receiver (#422, @VineethReddy02)
• Add influxdb receiver (#423, @VineethReddy02)
• Added imagePullPolicy option to CRD (#413, @mmatache)

Release v0.33.0

• Bumped OpenTelemetry Collector to v0.33.0
• Add statsd receiver (#364, @VineethReddy02)
• Allow running daemonset in hostNetwork mode (#393, @owais)
• Target Allocator implementation (Part 1 - OTEL Operator Enhancements) (#351, @Raul9595)
• Change the default port for OTLP HTTP (#373, @joaopgrassi)
• Add Kubernetes 1.22 to the test matrix (#382, @jpkrohling)
• Add protocol: TCP value under ports key to avoid the known limitation for Kubernetes 1.19 (#372, @Saber-W)
• Add fluentforward receiver (#367, @VineethReddy02)