opentelemetry-java v1.63.0

API

• Add missing setAttribute shortcuts to Span and LogRecordBuilder (#8255)
• Promote InstrumentationUtil to public class in io.opentelemetry.api.impl package (#8413)
• Fix index-out-of-bounds in StrictContextStorage (#8294)

Incubating

• BREAKING Remove deprecated ExtendedAttributes and related code (#8395)

SDK

Metrics

• Collect async exemplars when exemplar filter is always_on (#8363)
• Move delta record/collect coordination from instrument to series level (#8313)

Exporters

• Add noop() factory method to SpanExporter and LogRecordExporter (#8435)
• BREAKING OTLP: Remove support for deprecated GrpcSenderProvider and HttpSenderProvider SPI property names (use io.opentelemetry.sdk.common.export.GrpcSenderProvider / io.opentelemetry.sdk.common.export.HttpSenderProvider instead) (#8392)
• OTLP: Bound OkHttp sender dispatchers and surface rejections (#8422)
• Prometheus: Limit exemplar label characters to conform to Prometheus limits (#8362)
• Logging: Fix LoggingSpanExporter.flush() to preserve flush failures (#8361)
• Zipkin: Make exporter self-contained by removing shared internal code dependencies (#8413)

Extensions

• BREAKING Autoconfigure: Remove deprecated otel.experimental.config.file property (#8393)
• BREAKING Incubator: Remove deprecated ViewConfig/ViewConfigCustomizer view file config mechanism (#8394)
• Declarative config: Fix model package (#8403)
• Declarative config: Fix Java module name to io.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.declarativeconfig (#8452)

Shims

• Deprecate OpenTracing shim public API (#8373)

Project tooling

• Finish adding OSGi support across all modules (#8401, #8417)
• Force io.zipkin.zipkin2:zipkin:3.6.1 to avoid problematic gson version (#8430)

🙇 Thank you

This release was possible thanks to the following contributors who shared their brilliant ideas and awesome pull requests:

@ADITYA-CODE-SOURCE @anuq @bogdandrutu @breedx-splk @cijothomas @jack-berg @jaydeluca @jkwatson @khouari1 @kyyril @laurit @ps-mir @psx95 @royteeuwen @Sandared @trask @zeitlinger

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Source open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java · v1.63.0 · 2026-06-05 · upstream release

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