v0.83.0

Images and binaries here: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/tag/v0.83.0

User Facing Changes

💡 Enhancements 💡

• extension: Add optional ConfigWatcher interface (#6596)
  Extensions implementing this interface will be notified of the Collector's effective config.

• otelcol: Add optional ConfmapProvider interface for Config Providers (#6596)
  This allows providing the Collector's configuration as a marshaled confmap.Conf object
  from a ConfigProvider

• service: Add CollectorConf field to service.Settings (#6596)
  This field is intended to be used by the Collector to pass its effective configuration to the service.

Go API Changes

🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

• all: Remove go 1.19 support, bump minimum to go 1.20 and add testing for 1.21 (#8207)

💡 Enhancements 💡

• changelog: Generate separate changelogs for end users and package consumers (#8153)