diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/testing/trace.rs b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/testing/trace.rs
index 5d5b338a9b..c22c9b1675 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/testing/trace.rs
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/testing/trace.rs
@@ -9,14 +9,22 @@ use crate::{
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use futures_util::future::BoxFuture;
 pub use opentelemetry_api::testing::trace::TestSpan;
-use opentelemetry_api::trace::{SpanContext, SpanId, SpanKind, Status};
+use opentelemetry_api::trace::{
+    SpanContext, SpanId, SpanKind, Status, TraceFlags, TraceId, TraceState,
+};
 use std::fmt::{Display, Formatter};
 use std::sync::mpsc::{channel, Receiver, Sender};
 
 pub fn new_test_export_span_data() -> SpanData {
     let config = Config::default();
     SpanData {
-        span_context: SpanContext::empty_context(),
+        span_context: SpanContext::new(
+            TraceId::from_u128(1),
+            SpanId::from_u64(1),
+            TraceFlags::SAMPLED,
+            false,
+            TraceState::default(),
+        ),
         parent_span_id: SpanId::INVALID,
         span_kind: SpanKind::Internal,
         name: "opentelemetry".into(),
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/trace/span_processor.rs b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/trace/span_processor.rs
index d4e01a156b..91d101a90d 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/trace/span_processor.rs
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/trace/span_processor.rs
@@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ impl SpanProcessor for SimpleSpanProcessor {
     }
 
     fn on_end(&self, span: SpanData) {
+        if !span.span_context.is_sampled() {
+            return;
+        }
+
         if let Err(err) = self.sender.send(Some(span)) {
             global::handle_error(TraceError::from(format!("error processing span {:?}", err)));
         }
@@ -242,6 +246,10 @@ impl<R: TraceRuntime> SpanProcessor for BatchSpanProcessor<R> {
     }
 
     fn on_end(&self, span: SpanData) {
+        if !span.span_context.is_sampled() {
+            return;
+        }
+
         let result = self.message_sender.try_send(BatchMessage::ExportSpan(span));
 
         if let Err(err) = result {
@@ -687,8 +695,9 @@ mod tests {
     use crate::testing::trace::{
         new_test_export_span_data, new_test_exporter, new_tokio_test_exporter,
     };
-    use crate::trace::BatchConfig;
+    use crate::trace::{BatchConfig, EvictedHashMap, EvictedQueue};
     use async_trait::async_trait;
+    use opentelemetry_api::trace::{SpanContext, SpanId, SpanKind, Status};
     use std::fmt::Debug;
     use std::future::Future;
     use std::time::Duration;
@@ -702,6 +711,28 @@ mod tests {
         let _result = processor.shutdown();
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn simple_span_processor_on_end_skips_export_if_not_sampled() {
+        let (exporter, rx_export, _rx_shutdown) = new_test_exporter();
+        let processor = SimpleSpanProcessor::new(Box::new(exporter));
+        let unsampled = SpanData {
+            span_context: SpanContext::empty_context(),
+            parent_span_id: SpanId::INVALID,
+            span_kind: SpanKind::Internal,
+            name: "opentelemetry".into(),
+            start_time: opentelemetry_api::time::now(),
+            end_time: opentelemetry_api::time::now(),
+            attributes: EvictedHashMap::new(0, 0),
+            events: EvictedQueue::new(0),
+            links: EvictedQueue::new(0),
+            status: Status::Unset,
+            resource: Default::default(),
+            instrumentation_lib: Default::default(),
+        };
+        processor.on_end(unsampled);
+        assert!(rx_export.recv_timeout(Duration::from_millis(100)).is_err());
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn simple_span_processor_shutdown_calls_shutdown() {
         let (exporter, _rx_export, rx_shutdown) = new_test_exporter();
diff --git a/scripts/patch_dependencies.sh b/scripts/patch_dependencies.sh
index b13f2efacb..633bdf0e53 100755
--- a/scripts/patch_dependencies.sh
+++ b/scripts/patch_dependencies.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
-# Dashmap 5.3.4 requires 1.59
+# Dashmap >= 5.3.4 requires 1.59
 latest_version=$(cargo search --limit 1 dashmap | head -1 | cut -d'"' -f2)  &&
 cargo update -p dashmap:$latest_version --precise 5.1.0 &&
 # We have time 0.1 and 0.3
 latest_version=$(cargo search --limit 1 time | head -1 | cut -d'"' -f2) &&
-cargo update -p time:$latest_version --precise 0.3.9
+cargo update -p time:$latest_version --precise 0.3.9 &&
+# async-global-executor >= 2.3.0 requires 1.59
+latest_version=$(cargo search --limit 1 async-global-executor | head -1 | cut -d'"' -f2)  &&
+cargo update -p async-global-executor:$latest_version --precise 2.2.0