2.73.0

Go Vulnerability Patches

• Patch DLA-4845-1 and CVE-2026-111943.
• [chore] Update to Go 1.26.10 in the repo to address vulnerability. (#2471)
• [chore] Update to otelopscol : v0.162.1 with Go version 1.26.10. (#2470)

Features

• [confgenerator] Migrate important Self Log signals to Otel Logging. (#2389)

Internal

• [fix] Update gce-testing-internal to fix NVidia test. (#2472)
• build(deps): bump github.com/klauspost/compress from 1.18.2 to 1.18.7 (#2469)
• test(otlp): deflake TestOTLPTraces and TestOTLPLogs by pacing emissions before exit (#2463)
• fix(uap): configure gcloud storage check_hashes to if_fast_else_skip to prevent crc32c prompt aborts (#2464)
• [Audit Test] Update dev.md (#2467)
• test(otlp): deflake TestOTLPMetricsGCM and TestOTLPMetricsGMP by pacing metric emissions and breaking on failure (#2462)
• build(deps): bump gce-testing-internal to use Compute Engine API (#2458)
• test(prometheus): replace unconditional 3m sleeps with dynamic backoff polling (#2461)
• build(deps): bump gce-testing-internal to retry GCE 502s and Monitoring CANCELLED errors (#2455)
• Make the Windows agent install from GCS safe to retry (#2456)
• Bump package version to 2.73.0 (#2454)
• Remove Windows Server 2012 vestiges. (#2453)