### Context

- Deprecate Jaeger propagator and make propagator implementation
optional.

([#4827](#4827))
- Deprecate OT Trace propagator and make propagator implementation
optional.

([#4851](#4851))

### Metrics

- Add normative language to the Metrics API/SDK spec concurrency
requirements.

([#4868](#4868))

### Logs

- Add optional `Exception` parameter to Emit LogRecord.

([#4824](#4824))
- Add normative language to the Logging API/SDK spec concurrency
requirements.

([#4885](#4885))

### Resource

- Refine the handling of OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES.

([#4856](#4856))

### Common

- Add string representation guidance for complex attribute value types
(byte arrays,
  empty values, arrays, and maps) for non-OTLP protocols.

([#4848](#4848))

### Compatibility

- Stabilize Prometheus Counter to OTLP Sum transformation.

([#4862](#4862))
- Stabilize Prometheus Gauge to OTLP Gauge transformation.

([#4871](#4871))

### SDK Configuration

- Swap Tracer/Meter/LoggerConfig `disabled` for `enabled` to avoid
double negatives

([#4823](#4823))
- Declarative configuration: rename `ComponentProvider` to
`PluginComponentProvider`, `CreatePlugin` to `CreateComponent` in effort
to
  use consistent vocabulary

([#4806](#4806))
- Declarative configuration: Update instrumentation config behavior to
return
  empty object when not set

([#4817](#4817))