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+title: OpenTelemetry in Focus - February 2023
+linkTitle: OTel in Focus - 2023/02
+date: 2023-02-28
+author: >-
+  [Austin Parker](https://github.com/austinlparker)
+---
+
+Welcome to this month’s edition of OpenTelemetry in Focus! It might be cold and
+snowy in much of the Northern Hemisphere, but that hasn’t frozen our progress.
+Read on for an overview of new releases, announcements, and other important
+updates.
+
+Are you a maintainer with something you’d like featured here? Get in touch with
+me [via email](mailto:austin@lightstep.com), or on the
+[CNCF Slack, #otel-comms](https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C02UN96HZH6)
+channel.
+
+## Releases and Updates
+
+Here's the latest updates from our core repositories:
+
+- [Specification v1.18](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/releases/tag/v1.18.0)
+  has been released, with a batch of semantic convention updates and
+  clarifications on mapping and converting between Prometheus and OpenTelemetry
+  Metrics.
+- [Collector (and Contrib) v0.72](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/releases)
+  have been released with several major changes to be aware of --
+  - The minimum supported Golang version is now 1.19
+  - The host metrics receiver has removed deprecated metrics for process memory.
+  - The promtail receiver has been removed from collector-contrib.
+  - The Jaeger exporters are now deprecated, to be removed in a future release.
+  - [Connectors](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/connector/README.md)
+    have been added! These are components that act as exporters and receivers,
+    allowing you to route data through pipelines. Please see the component docs
+    for more information.
+  - Many bug fixes and enhancements.
+- [Go v1.14](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/releases/tag/v1.14.0)
+  has been released. This is the last release to support Go 1.18; 1.19 will be
+  required in the future. Semantic conventions have been updated, resulting in
+  changes to constant and function names. Finally, there’s a variety of bug
+  fixes and other small changes.
+- [Java v1.23](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/releases/tag/v1.23.0)
+  has been released, bringing with it stable base2 exponential histogram
+  aggregations and significant metrics refactoring. Semantic convention updates,
+  improvements to SDK shutdown, and several enhancements to the SDK extensions
+  are also in this release.
+  [Java Instrumentation](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/releases/tag/v1.23.0)
+  has been updated as well, most notably changing HTTP span names to reflect
+  updated semantic conventions.
+- [Python v1.16](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/releases/tag/v1.16.0)
+  has been released with deprecations to Jaeger exporters, several performance
+  improvements and bug fixes, and changes to Prometheus export.
+- [.NET v1.4](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/releases/tag/core-1.4.0)
+  removes several deprecated extension methods.
+
+As always, this is just a snapshot of important changes and improvements across
+the core projects. Please make sure you thoroughly read the release notes when
+upgrading your OpenTelemetry dependencies.
+
+## Project Updates
+
+The PHP SIG announced the release of
+[OpenTelemetry PHP v1 Beta](/blog/2023/php-beta-release/) at the end of January,
+and are looking forward to your feedback. In addition, the Communications SIG is
+planning to release new documentation for PHP soon.
+
+The [Outreachy](/blog/2023/outreachy-may-cohort/) project is looking for
+participants. This is an annual program that connects new open source
+contributors with small, self-contained projects that they can work on. There
+are also opportunities to volunteer to mentor these contributors. Read the blog
+for more information!
+
+The
+[Collector SIG will be starting new APAC-friendly meetings](/blog/2023/new-apac-meetings/)
+to support contributors and maintainers worldwide.
+
+Our End-User Working Group has written up a
+[Q&A about using OpenTelemetry with GraphQL](/blog/2023/otel-end-user-q-and-a-series-otel-and-graphql/).
+
+## News and Upcoming Events
+
+OpenTelemetry maintainers and contributors will be in attendance at
+[Observability Day Europe](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/observability-day/)
+on April 18th, 2023, as part of KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Europe 2023.

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