7.3.0

Changes

OpenTelemetry Native Metrics Support for asynchronous clients
Added comprehensive OpenTelemetry metrics support for asynchronous clients following the OpenTelemetry Database Client Semantic Conventions.
Metric groups include:

• Command metrics: Operation duration with retry tracking
• Connection basic: Connection count and creation time
• Resiliency: Errors, handoffs, timeout relaxation
• Connection advanced: Wait time and use time
• Pubsub metrics: Published and received messages
• Stream metrics: Processing duration and maintenance notifications

🚀 New Features

• Added OTel instrumentation and metrics export for async client (#3977)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [async] Adding access to cluster client's nodes_manager and set_response_callback in ClusterPipeline objects (#3989)
• fix(connection): Ensure we have an initialized protocol in connection (#3981)

🧰 Maintenance

• fix: use KeysT for blpop and brpop keys parameter type annotation (#3987 #3990)
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 6 to 7 (#3985)
• fix: replace 3 bare except clauses with except Exception (#3980)

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!
@mitre88 @turanalmammadov @haosenwang1018 @Medno @vladvildanov @petyaslavova