Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Python release notes

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• Introduced OpAMP agent for Central configuration in Tech Preview: the first option implemented is changing the logging level of EDOT Python. Central configuration will be available as Tech Preview in Elastic Stack 9.1 (#320)

• Bump to OTel 1.34.1: dropped support for Python 3.8 (#321)

  Upstream changes:

  • http://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/discussions/4613
  • http://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/discussions/3558

• Bump to OTel 1.33.1: logs OTLP serialization improvements, stable code attributes used in logs (#307)

  Upstream changes:

  • http://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/discussions/4574
  • http://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/discussions/3487

• Bump openai instrumentation to 1.1.1 in docker image (#308)

• Bump to OTel 1.32.1: logging module autoinstrumentation improvements, explicit bucket advisory fixes, asyncclick instrumentation (#293)
• Bump openai instrumentation to 1.1.0 in docker image (#297)

• Enable opentelemetry-instrumentation-vertexai in edot-bootstrap (#283)
• Bump openai instrumentation to 1.0.0 in docker image (#275)
• Move docs to http://elastic.github.io/opentelemetry/ (#282)

• Bump to OTel 1.31.1 (#270)

• Remove some custom code in ElasticOpenTelemetryConfigurator (#250)
• Introduce a resource detector sending server.instance.id (#259)
• Bump to OTel 1.31.0: programmatic auto-instrumentation, added metrics and events for AWS Bedrock instrumentation (#263)
• Bump elastic-opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai to 0.6.1 in Docker image and relax version dependency to (#264)

• Bump to OTel 1.30.0: Python 3.13 support, pymssql instrumentation, basic GenAI tracing with AWS Bedrock (#241)

• Bump opentelemetry-sdk-extension-aws to 2.1.0 (#222)
• Bump opentelemetry-resourcedetector-gcp to 1.8.0a0 (#229)
• Add OpenAI examples (#226)

• Bump to OTel 1.29.0 (#211)
• Bump elastic-opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai dependency to 0.6.0 (#210)

• Enable by default cloud resource detectors for AWS, Azure and GCP (#198)
• Introduce edot-bootstrap, like opentelemetry-bootstrap but with EDOT Openai instrumentation (#196)
• Add docs for tracing with manual spans and metrics (#189)
• Set OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_TEMPORALITY_PREFERENCE to DELTA (#197)
• Bump elastic-opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai dependency to 0.5.0 (#204)

• Bump to OTel 1.28.2 (#185)

• Bump to OTel 1.28.1 (#169)
• Enable log events by default (#154)
• Add musl autoinstrumentation to Docker image for OTel Kubernetes operator (#162)
• Add documentation for logging enablement (#153)
• Add flask autoinstrumentation example (#168)

• Build Python 3.12 Docker image for OTel Kubernetes operator (#132, #136, #137)
• Make the distro loading more robust against ImportError Exception when loading instrumentations (#132)
• Add some types in resource detectors (#133)

• Added some documentation (#110)
• Bump to OTel 1.27.0 (#117)
• Enabled os resource detector by default (#117)

First release.