observability: please update to a newer version of opentelemetry because the current dependency opentelemetry-api:1.1.0 is from April 2021 (3+ years ago) #1173
Description
While working on modernizing the observability in this library I encountered the fact that the constrained minimum version of opentelemetry-api being used is 1.1.0 and that was released in April 2021 (3 years ago) https://pypi.org/project/opentelemetry-api/1.1.0/
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Let's get to the latest release of opentelemetry. I am going to send a change