Prepare release 0.140.0 (open-telemetry#4516)

* Prepare release 0.140.0

Signed-off-by: Pavol Loffay <[email protected]>

* Prepare release 0.140.0

Signed-off-by: Pavol Loffay <[email protected]>

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Signed-off-by: Pavol Loffay <[email protected]>

Author: pavolloffay

.chloggen/fg_native_sidecar_rm.yaml

@@ -2,6 +2,55 @@
 
 <!-- next version -->
 
+## 0.140.0
+
+### 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑
+
+- `operator`: Remove native sidecar feature gate (#4451)
+  The feature gate `operator.sidecarcontainers.native` has been removed.
+  It was introduced in v0.111.0, enabled by default since v0.132.0, and marked as stable in v0.139.0.
+  Native sidecars are now automatically enabled on Kubernetes v1.29+ without requiring a feature gate.
+  If you were explicitly enabling or disabling this feature gate with `--feature-gates=+operator.sidecarcontainers.native`,
+  you must remove that flag.
+  
+
+### 💡 Enhancements 💡
+
+- `collector`: Promote the `operator.golang.flags` feature flag to Beta (#4452)
+  The operator will set the GOMEMLIMIT and GOMAXPROCS environment variables based
+  on the pod configuration of the collector container by default.
+  
+- `operator`: Use pod and namespace label selector in operator NetworkPolicy for the API server Egress on OpenShift. (#4490)
+  On OpenShift use pod (`"apiserver": "true"`) and namespace (`kubernetes.io/metadata.name": "openshift-kube-apiserver"`)
+  label selectors in API server Egress network policy.
+  
+
+### 🧰 Bug fixes 🧰
+
+- `auto-instrumentation`: Fixes the precedence of `spec.env` in Instrumentation CR so global env vars correctly override defaults. (#4068)
+  Previously, environment variables set under `spec.env` were ignored in favor of default instrumentation config, 
+  unless duplicated in each language block. This change ensures the correct order of precedence is applied:
+  language-specific env vars > spec.env > defaults.
+  
+- `collector`: Fix mounting spec.configmaps in sidecar mode (#4489)
+  Configmaps defined in `spec.configmaps` were not properly mounted in the sidecar mode.
+  
+- `github action`: Remove unused VERSION and VERSION_DATE environment variables from publish workflows (#4470)
+  Removed the unused "Read version" step that set VERSION and VERSION_DATE environment variables in both publish-target-allocator.yaml and publish-operator-opamp-bridge.yaml workflows. These variables were never referenced anywhere in the workflows.
+  
+
+### Components
+
+* [OpenTelemetry Collector - v0.140.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/releases/tag/v0.140.0)
+* [OpenTelemetry Contrib - v0.140.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/releases/tag/v0.140.0)
+* [Java auto-instrumentation - v1.33.6](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/releases/tag/v1.33.6)
+* [.NET auto-instrumentation - v1.2.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-instrumentation/releases/tag/v1.2.0)
+* [Node.JS - v0.66.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/releases/tag/experimental%2Fv0.66.0)
+* [Python - v0.59b0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/releases/tag/v0.59b0)
+* [Go - v0.22.1](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-instrumentation/releases/tag/v0.22.1)
+* [ApacheHTTPD - 1.0.4](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp-contrib/releases/tag/webserver%2Fv1.0.4)
+* [Nginx - 1.0.4](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp-contrib/releases/tag/webserver%2Fv1.0.4)
+
 ## 0.139.0
 
 ### 💡 Enhancements 💡

.chloggen/fix-cr spec.env-defaults.yaml

@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ The operator should be released within a week after the [OpenTelemetry collector
 
 | Version  | Release manager |
 |----------|-----------------|
-| v0.140.0 | @TylerHelmuth   |
-| v0.141.0 | @frzifus        |
-| v0.142.0 | @pavolloffay    |
-| v0.143.0 | @swiatekm       |
-| v0.144.0 | @iblancasa      |
-| v0.145.0 | @jaronoff97     |
-| v0.146.0 | @yuriolisa      |
+| v0.141.0 | @TylerHelmuth   |
+| v0.142.0 | @frzifus        |
+| v0.143.0 | @pavolloffay    |
+| v0.144.0 | @swiatekm       |
+| v0.145.0 | @iblancasa      |
+| v0.146.0 | @jaronoff97     |
+| v0.147.0 | @yuriolisa      |

.chloggen/fix-sidecar-configmap.yaml

@@ -99,13 +99,13 @@ metadata:
     categories: Logging & Tracing,Monitoring
     certified: "false"
     containerImage: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/opentelemetry-operator
-    createdAt: "2025-11-04T20:46:50Z"
+    createdAt: "2025-11-20T10:03:26Z"
     description: Provides the OpenTelemetry components, including the Collector
     operators.operatorframework.io/builder: operator-sdk-v1.29.0
     operators.operatorframework.io/project_layout: go.kubebuilder.io/v3
     repository: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator
     support: OpenTelemetry Community
-  name: opentelemetry-operator.v0.139.0
+  name: opentelemetry-operator.v0.140.0
   namespace: placeholder
 spec:
   apiservicedefinitions: {}
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ spec:
                   valueFrom:
                     fieldRef:
                       fieldPath: metadata.namespace
-                image: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/opentelemetry-operator:0.139.0
+                image: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/opentelemetry-operator:0.140.0
                 livenessProbe:
                   httpGet:
                     path: /healthz
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ spec:
   minKubeVersion: 1.25.0
   provider:
     name: OpenTelemetry Community
-  version: 0.139.0
+  version: 0.140.0
   webhookdefinitions:
   - admissionReviewVersions:
     - v1alpha1

.chloggen/go_mem_beta.yaml

@@ -99,13 +99,13 @@ metadata:
     categories: Logging & Tracing,Monitoring
     certified: "false"
     containerImage: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/opentelemetry-operator
-    createdAt: "2025-11-04T20:46:50Z"
+    createdAt: "2025-11-20T10:03:26Z"
     description: Provides the OpenTelemetry components, including the Collector
     operators.operatorframework.io/builder: operator-sdk-v1.29.0
     operators.operatorframework.io/project_layout: go.kubebuilder.io/v3
     repository: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator
     support: OpenTelemetry Community
-  name: opentelemetry-operator.v0.139.0
+  name: opentelemetry-operator.v0.140.0
   namespace: placeholder
 spec:
   apiservicedefinitions: {}
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ spec:
                   valueFrom:
                     fieldRef:
                       fieldPath: metadata.namespace
-                image: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/opentelemetry-operator:0.139.0
+                image: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/opentelemetry-operator:0.140.0
                 livenessProbe:
                   httpGet:
                     path: /healthz
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ spec:
   minKubeVersion: 1.25.0
   provider:
     name: OpenTelemetry Community
-  version: 0.139.0
+  version: 0.140.0
   webhookdefinitions:
   - admissionReviewVersions:
     - v1alpha1