1.15.0-M2

⚠️ Noteworthy

• Publish milestones to Maven Central #5891
• Remove special handling of 404/301 from OkHttp instrumentation #5814
• Deprecate micrometer-registry-signalfx in favor of micrometer-registry-otlp #5807

⭐ New Features / Enhancements

• Use direct equals call instead of Objects.equals wrapper #5840
• Remove special handling of 404/301 from JDK HTTP client instrumentation #5838
• Make Timer and LongTaskTimer output similar in LoggingMeterRegistry #5835
• Remove special handling of 404 and redirection statuses from Jetty client instrumentation #5825
• Log deprecation warning when creating SignalFxMeterRegistry #5824
• Log metrics recording failures in CountedAspect and TimedAspect #5820
• Remove special handling of 404/301 from OkHttp instrumentation #5814
• Support AutoShutdownDelegatedExecutorService in ExecutorServiceMetrics #5811
• Deprecate micrometer-registry-signalfx in favor of micrometer-registry-otlp #5807
• Rebind Log4j2Metrics when LoggerContext#reconfigure is called #5756
• Send metrics via any protocol in the OTLP Registry #5690
• Improve average performance of DefaultLongTaskTimer for out-of-order stopping #5591

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Log4j2Metrics does not work with multiple registries and non-root loggers #5893
• Fix LongTaskTimer output for LoggingMeterRegistry #5834
• Log4j2Metrics creates more MetricsFilter instances than needed #5818
• Fix unit discrepancy between Timer and FunctionTimer in LoggingMeterRegistry #5816
• Distribution bucket_counts sum does not equal the count #4868

📔 Documentation

• Remove obviated GraalVM native image compilation section from Stackdriver docs #5819
• Update Docs with right contract of MeterFilter #5480

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Bump com.google.auth:google-auth-library-oauth2-http from 1.30.1 to 1.32.1 #5906
• Bump software.amazon.awssdk:cloudwatch from 2.29.46 to 2.30.15 #5905
• Bump com.netflix.spectator:spectator-reg-atlas from 1.8.3 to 1.8.4 #5904
• Bump com.signalfx.public:signalfx-java from 1.0.47 to 1.0.49 #5897
• Bump com.google.cloud:libraries-bom from 26.52.0 to 26.54.0 #5883
• Bump com.google.cloud:google-cloud-monitoring from 3.56.0 to 3.58.0 #5864
• Bump io.netty:netty-bom from 4.1.116.Final to 4.1.117.Final #5862
• Bump dropwizard-metrics from 4.2.29 to 4.2.30 #5855

📝 Tasks

• Add tests verifying that Apache (Async) HTTP clients don't have special handling for 404 #5837
• Fix gradle check with JDK17+ #5735
• Add .kotlin to .gitignore #5888
• Migrate to dependabot auto-merge function #5874

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@big-cir, @breedx-splk, @fogninid, @izeye, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @turbanoff, and @kasparkivistik