bump version to v0.42.0

Author: vasireddy99

VERSION

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docs/releases/v0.42.0.md

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+# Changelog
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+## [v0.42.0](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/tree/v0.42.0) (2024-12-17)
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+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/compare/v0.41.1...v0.42.0)
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+**Closed issues:**
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+- AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry EKS add-on for kubernetes 1.31? [\#2873](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/issues/2873)
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+**Merged pull requests:**
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+- \[chore\] Bump OTel Collector and collector contrib v0.115.0, Removed logging exporter and ballast extension  [\#2915](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/2915) ([vasireddy99](https://github.com/vasireddy99))
+- \[chore\]: fix incorrect AWS credentials extracfg field name [\#2909](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/2909) ([vasireddy99](https://github.com/vasireddy99))
+- fix: incorrect AWS credentials extracfg field name [\#2901](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/2901) ([danmrichards](https://github.com/danmrichards))
+- chore: Update GitHub Actions workflow to use Ubuntu 22.04 runner [\#2900](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/2900) ([vasireddy99](https://github.com/vasireddy99))
+- pin markdown lint in workflows to 3.12.2 [\#2896](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/2896) ([vasireddy99](https://github.com/vasireddy99))
+- Bump Upload/download artifacts to v4 [\#2895](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/2895) ([vasireddy99](https://github.com/vasireddy99))
+- Merge v0.41.1 changes [\#2879](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/2879) ([roystchiang](https://github.com/roystchiang))
+- Mirror kube-rbac image v0.18.1 [\#2871](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/2871) ([vasireddy99](https://github.com/vasireddy99))
+- make link to logging exporter permalink to last used release tag [\#2862](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/2862) ([Aneurysm9](https://github.com/Aneurysm9))
+- Prepare release v0.41.0 \(\#2860\) [\#2861](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/2861) ([Aneurysm9](https://github.com/Aneurysm9))
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+\* *This Changelog was automatically generated by [github_changelog_generator](https://github.com/github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator)*