diff --git a/.chloggen/TEMPLATE.yaml b/.chloggen/TEMPLATE.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..881bf679
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/TEMPLATE.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Use this changelog template to create an entry for release notes.
+
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type:
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. otlpreceiver)
+component:
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note:
+
+# One or more tracking issues or pull requests related to the change
+issues: []
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
+
+# Optional: The change log or logs in which this entry should be included.
+# e.g. '[user]' or '[user, api]'
+# Include 'user' if the change is relevant to end users.
+# Include 'api' if there is a change to a library API.
+# Default: '[user]'
+change_logs: []
+
diff --git a/.chloggen/config.yaml b/.chloggen/config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4ce97c2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# The directory that stores individual changelog entries.
+# Each entry is stored in a dedicated yaml file.
+# - 'chloggen new' will copy the 'template_yaml' to this directory as a new entry file.
+# - 'chloggen validate' will validate that all entry files are valid.
+# - 'chloggen update' will read and delete all entry files in this directory, and update 'changelog_md'.
+# Specify as relative path from root of repo.
+# (Optional) Default: .chloggen
+entries_dir: .chloggen
+
+# This file is used as the input for individual changelog entries.
+# Specify as relative path from root of repo.
+# (Optional) Default: .chloggen/TEMPLATE.yaml
+template_yaml: .chloggen/TEMPLATE.yaml
+
+# The CHANGELOG file or files to which 'chloggen update' will write new entries
+# (Optional) Default filename: CHANGELOG.md
+change_logs:
+  user: CHANGELOG.md
+
+# The default change_log or change_logs to which an entry should be added.
+# If 'change_logs' is specified in this file, and no value is specified for 'default_change_logs',
+# then 'change_logs' MUST be specified in every entry file.
+default_change_logs: [user]
diff --git a/.github/workflows/changelog.yml b/.github/workflows/changelog.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f2966c90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/changelog.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+# This action requires that any PR targeting the main branch should add a
+# yaml file to the ./.chloggen/ directory. If a CHANGELOG entry is not required,
+# or if performing maintance on the Changelog, add either \"[chore]\" to the title of
+# the pull request or add the \"Skip Changelog\" label to disable this action.
+
+name: changelog
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, labeled, unlabeled]
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+env:
+  # Make sure to exit early if cache segment download times out after 2 minutes.
+  # We limit cache download as a whole to 5 minutes.
+  SEGMENT_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT_MINS: 2
+  # renovate: datasource=github-releases depName=tcort/markdown-link-check
+  MD_LINK_CHECK_VERSION: "3.12.2"
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  changelog:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    if: ${{ github.actor != 'dependabot[bot]' }}
+    env:
+      PR_HEAD: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: "1.22.8"
+          cache: false
+      - name: Cache Go
+        id: go-cache
+        timeout-minutes: 5
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/go/bin
+            ~/go/pkg/mod
+          key: changelog-${{ runner.os }}-go-${{ hashFiles('**/go.sum') }}
+
+      - name: Ensure no changes to the CHANGELOG.md or CHANGELOG-API.md
+        if: ${{ !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'dependencies') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'Skip Changelog') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.title, '[chore]')}}
+        run: |
+          if [[ $(git diff --name-only $(git merge-base origin/main $PR_HEAD) $PR_HEAD ./CHANGELOG*.md) ]]
+          then
+            echo "CHANGELOG.md and CHANGELOG-API.md should not be directly modified."
+            echo "Please add a .yaml file to the ./.chloggen/ directory."
+            echo "See CONTRIBUTING.md for more details."
+            echo "Alternately, add either \"[chore]\" to the title of the pull request or add the \"Skip Changelog\" label if this job should be skipped."
+            false
+          else
+            echo "CHANGELOG.md and CHANGELOG-API.md were not modified."
+          fi
+
+      - name: Ensure ./.chloggen/*.yaml addition(s)
+        if: ${{ !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'dependencies') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'Skip Changelog') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.title, '[chore]')}}
+        run: |
+          if [[ 1 -gt $(git diff --diff-filter=A --name-only $(git merge-base origin/main $PR_HEAD) $PR_HEAD ./.chloggen | grep -c \\.yaml) ]]
+          then
+            echo "No changelog entry was added to the ./.chloggen/ directory."
+            echo "Please add a .yaml file to the ./.chloggen/ directory."
+            echo "See CONTRIBUTING.md for more details."
+            echo "Alternately, add either \"[chore]\" to the title of the pull request or add the \"Skip Changelog\" label if this job should be skipped."
+            false
+          else
+            echo "A changelog entry was added to the ./.chloggen/ directory."
+          fi
+
+      - name: Validate ./.chloggen/*.yaml changes
+        run: |
+          make chlog-validate \
+            || { echo "New ./.chloggen/*.yaml file failed validation."; exit 1; }
+
+      # In order to validate any links in the yaml file, render the config to markdown
+      - name: Render .chloggen changelog entries
+        if: ${{ !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'dependencies') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'Skip Changelog') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.title, '[chore]')}}
+        run: make chlog-preview > changelog_preview.md
+      - name: Install markdown-link-check
+        if: ${{ !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'dependencies') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'Skip Changelog') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.title, '[chore]')}}
+        run: npm install -g markdown-link-check@${{ env.MD_LINK_CHECK_VERSION }}
+      - name: Run markdown-link-check
+        if: ${{ !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'dependencies') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'Skip Changelog') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.title, '[chore]')}}
+        run: |
+          markdown-link-check \
+            --verbose \
+            --config .github/workflows/check_links_config.json \
+            changelog_preview.md \
+            || { echo "Check that anchor links are lowercase"; exit 1; }
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check_links_config.json b/.github/workflows/check_links_config.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..84c68f6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/check_links_config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{
+    "ignorePatterns": [
+        {
+            "pattern": "http(s)?://\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+"
+        },
+        {
+            "pattern": "http(s)?://localhost"
+        },
+        {
+            "pattern": "http(s)?://example.com"
+        },
+        {
+            "pattern": "#warnings"
+        }
+    ],
+    "aliveStatusCodes": [429, 200],
+    "httpHeaders": [
+        {
+            "urls": ["https://docs.github.com/"],
+            "headers": {
+                "Accept-Encoding": "zstd, br, gzip, deflate"
+            }
+        }
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 00093749..671cf8e4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ dist/
 .generated-yaml/
 .vscode
 .core
+.tools
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2621a477..f31d5ee5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,10 +1,21 @@
 GO ?= go
 GORELEASER ?= goreleaser
 
+# SRC_ROOT is the top of the source tree.
+SRC_ROOT := $(shell git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
 OTELCOL_BUILDER_VERSION ?= 0.115.0
 OTELCOL_BUILDER_DIR ?= ${HOME}/bin
 OTELCOL_BUILDER ?= ${OTELCOL_BUILDER_DIR}/ocb
 
+GOCMD?= go
+TOOLS_MOD_DIR   := $(SRC_ROOT)/internal/tools
+TOOLS_BIN_DIR   := $(SRC_ROOT)/.tools
+TOOLS_MOD_REGEX := "\s+_\s+\".*\""
+TOOLS_PKG_NAMES := $(shell grep -E $(TOOLS_MOD_REGEX) < $(TOOLS_MOD_DIR)/tools.go | tr -d " _\"" | grep -vE '/v[0-9]+$$')
+TOOLS_BIN_NAMES := $(addprefix $(TOOLS_BIN_DIR)/, $(notdir $(shell echo $(TOOLS_PKG_NAMES))))
+CHLOGGEN        := $(TOOLS_BIN_DIR)/chloggen
+CHLOGGEN_CONFIG := .chloggen/config.yaml
+
 DISTRIBUTIONS ?= "otelcol,otelcol-contrib,otelcol-k8s,otelcol-otlp"
 
 ci: check build
@@ -92,4 +103,30 @@ delete-tags:
 # Used for debug only
 REMOTE?=git@github.com:open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases.git
 .PHONY: repeat-tags
-repeat-tags: delete-tags push-tags
\ No newline at end of file
+repeat-tags: delete-tags push-tags
+
+.PHONY: install-tools
+install-tools: $(TOOLS_BIN_NAMES)
+
+$(TOOLS_BIN_DIR):
+	mkdir -p $@
+
+$(TOOLS_BIN_NAMES): $(TOOLS_BIN_DIR) $(TOOLS_MOD_DIR)/go.mod
+	cd $(TOOLS_MOD_DIR) && $(GOCMD) build -o $@ -trimpath $(filter %/$(notdir $@),$(TOOLS_PKG_NAMES))
+
+FILENAME?=$(shell git branch --show-current)
+.PHONY: chlog-new
+chlog-new: $(CHLOGGEN)
+	$(CHLOGGEN) new --config $(CHLOGGEN_CONFIG) --filename $(FILENAME)
+
+.PHONY: chlog-validate
+chlog-validate: $(CHLOGGEN)
+	$(CHLOGGEN) validate --config $(CHLOGGEN_CONFIG)
+
+.PHONY: chlog-preview
+chlog-preview: $(CHLOGGEN)
+	$(CHLOGGEN) update --config $(CHLOGGEN_CONFIG) --dry
+
+.PHONY: chlog-update
+chlog-update: $(CHLOGGEN)
+	$(CHLOGGEN) update --config $(CHLOGGEN_CONFIG) --version $(VERSION)
diff --git a/internal/tools/Makefile b/internal/tools/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ded7a360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/tools/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include ../../Makefile.Common
diff --git a/internal/tools/go.mod b/internal/tools/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a026c79f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/tools/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+module go.opentelemetry.io/collector/internal/tools
+
+go 1.23
+
+toolchain go1.23.2
+
+require go.opentelemetry.io/build-tools/chloggen v0.15.0
+
+require (
+	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.2-0.20180830191138-d8f796af33cc // indirect
+	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/kr/pretty v0.3.1 // indirect
+	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.1-0.20181226105442-5d4384ee4fb2 // indirect
+	github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.13.1 // indirect
+	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.1 // indirect
+	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5 // indirect
+	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.10.0 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/check.v1 v1.0.0-20201130134442-10cb98267c6c // indirect
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
+)
+
+retract (
+	v0.57.1 // Release failed, use v0.57.2
+	v0.57.0 // Release failed, use v0.57.2
+)
diff --git a/internal/tools/go.sum b/internal/tools/go.sum
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a49cf65a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/tools/go.sum
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.4/go.mod h1:tgQtvFlXSQOSOSIRvRPT7W67SCa46tRHOmNcaadrF8o=
+github.com/creack/pty v1.1.9/go.mod h1:oKZEueFk5CKHvIhNR5MUki03XCEU+Q6VDXinZuGJ33E=
+github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.2-0.20180830191138-d8f796af33cc h1:U9qPSI2PIWSS1VwoXQT9A3Wy9MM3WgvqSxFWenqJduM=
+github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.2-0.20180830191138-d8f796af33cc/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
+github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.1.0 h1:wN+x4NVGpMsO7ErUn/mUI3vEoE6Jt13X2s0bqwp9tc8=
+github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.1.0/go.mod h1:vpF70FUmC8bwa3OWnCshd2FqLfsEA9PFc4w1p2J65bw=
+github.com/kr/pretty v0.2.1/go.mod h1:ipq/a2n7PKx3OHsz4KJII5eveXtPO4qwEXGdVfWzfnI=
+github.com/kr/pretty v0.3.1 h1:flRD4NNwYAUpkphVc1HcthR4KEIFJ65n8Mw5qdRn3LE=
+github.com/kr/pretty v0.3.1/go.mod h1:hoEshYVHaxMs3cyo3Yncou5ZscifuDolrwPKZanG3xk=
+github.com/kr/pty v1.1.1/go.mod h1:pFQYn66WHrOpPYNljwOMqo10TkYh1fy3cYio2l3bCsQ=
+github.com/kr/text v0.1.0/go.mod h1:4Jbv+DJW3UT/LiOwJeYQe1efqtUx/iVham/4vfdArNI=
+github.com/kr/text v0.2.0 h1:5Nx0Ya0ZqY2ygV366QzturHI13Jq95ApcVaJBhpS+AY=
+github.com/kr/text v0.2.0/go.mod h1:eLer722TekiGuMkidMxC/pM04lWEeraHUUmBw8l2grE=
+github.com/pkg/diff v0.0.0-20210226163009-20ebb0f2a09e/go.mod h1:pJLUxLENpZxwdsKMEsNbx1VGcRFpLqf3715MtcvvzbA=
+github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.1-0.20181226105442-5d4384ee4fb2 h1:Jamvg5psRIccs7FGNTlIRMkT8wgtp5eCXdBlqhYGL6U=
+github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.1-0.20181226105442-5d4384ee4fb2/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
+github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.9.0/go.mod h1:WtVeX8xhTBvf0smdhujwtBcq4Qrzq/fJaraNFVN+nFs=
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+github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.13.1/go.mod h1:uMEvuHeurkdAXX61udpOXGD/AzZDWNMNyH2VO9fmH0o=
+github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0/go.mod h1:+Rmxgy9KzJVeS9/2gXHxylqXiyQDYRxCVz55jmeOWTM=
+github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.1 h1:e5/vxKd/rZsfSJMUX1agtjeTDf+qv1/JdBF8gg5k9ZM=
+github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.1/go.mod h1:wHxEcudfqmLYa8iTfL+OuZPbBZkmvliBWKIezN3kD9Y=
+github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5 h1:iy+VFUOCP1a+8yFto/drg2CJ5u0yRoB7fZw3DKv/JXA=
+github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5/go.mod h1:McXfInJRrz4CZXVZOBLb0bTZqETkiAhM9Iw0y3An2Bg=
+github.com/stretchr/testify v1.10.0 h1:Xv5erBjTwe/5IxqUQTdXv5kgmIvbHo3QQyRwhJsOfJA=
+github.com/stretchr/testify v1.10.0/go.mod h1:r2ic/lqez/lEtzL7wO/rwa5dbSLXVDPFyf8C91i36aY=
+go.opentelemetry.io/build-tools/chloggen v0.15.0 h1:G5UeYUgP6x4QXie0yNs/6TjK9nCuuVXgXeDWE9/cxQQ=
+go.opentelemetry.io/build-tools/chloggen v0.15.0/go.mod h1:oovDPiOQS4iruTVH469/68hEYjWC48c8u+qJpWJc8Eg=
+gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405/go.mod h1:Co6ibVJAznAaIkqp8huTwlJQCZ016jof/cbN4VW5Yz0=
+gopkg.in/check.v1 v1.0.0-20201130134442-10cb98267c6c h1:Hei/4ADfdWqJk1ZMxUNpqntNwaWcugrBjAiHlqqRiVk=
+gopkg.in/check.v1 v1.0.0-20201130134442-10cb98267c6c/go.mod h1:JHkPIbrfpd72SG/EVd6muEfDQjcINNoR0C8j2r3qZ4Q=
+gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 h1:fxVm/GzAzEWqLHuvctI91KS9hhNmmWOoWu0XTYJS7CA=
+gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
diff --git a/internal/tools/tools.go b/internal/tools/tools.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fa0a2f27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/tools/tools.go
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+//go:build tools
+
+package tools // import "go.opentelemetry.io/collector/internal/tools"
+
+// This file follows the recommendation at
+// https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules#how-can-i-track-tool-dependencies-for-a-module
+// on how to pin tooling dependencies to a go.mod file.
+// This ensures that all systems use the same version of tools in addition to regular dependencies.
+
+import (
+	_ "go.opentelemetry.io/build-tools/chloggen"
+)