Update changelog (#4453)

Added remaining contrib changes, need to still add links

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,52 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## v0.96.1
+
+This Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector release includes changes from the [opentelemetry-collector v0.96.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/releases/tag/v0.96.0) and the [opentelemetry-collector-contrib v0.96.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/releases/tag/v0.96.0) releases where appropriate.
+
+### 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑
+
+- (Core) `configgrpc`: Remove deprecated `GRPCClientSettings`, `GRPCServerSettings`, and `ServerConfig.ToListenerContext`. ([#9616](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/9616))
+- (Core) `confighttp`: Remove deprecated `HTTPClientSettings`, `NewDefaultHTTPClientSettings`, and `CORSSettings`. ([#9625](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/9625))
+- (Core) `confignet`: Removes deprecated `NetAddr` and `TCPAddr` ([#9614](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/9614))
+- (Contrib) `spanmetricsprocessor`: Remove spanmetrics processor ([#29567](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/29567))
+  - You can use the spanmetrics connector as a replacement
+- (Contrib) `httpforwarder`: Remove extension named httpforwarder, use httpforwarderextension instead. ([#24171](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/24171))
+- (Contrib) `k8sclusterreceiver`: Remove deprecated k8s.kubeproxy.version resource attribute ([#29748](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/29748))
+
+### 💡 Enhancements 💡
+
+- (Core) `configtls`: Add `include_system_ca_certs_pool` to configtls, allowing to load system certs and additional custom certs. ([#7774](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/7774))
+- (Core) `otelcol`: Add `ConfigProviderSettings` to `CollectorSettings` ([#4759](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/4759))
+  This allows passing a custom list of `confmap.Provider`s to `otelcol.NewCommand`.
+- (Core) `pdata`: Update to OTLP v1.1.0 ([#9587](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/9587))
+  Introduces Span and SpanLink flags.
+- (Core) `confmap`: Update mapstructure to use a maintained fork, github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2. ([#9634](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/9634))
+  See https://github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure/issues/349 for context.
+- (Contrib) `statsdreceiver`: Add support for the latest version of DogStatsD protocol (v1.3) ([#31295](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/31295))
+- (Contrib) `fileexporter`: Scope the behavior of the fileexporter to its lifecycle, so it is safe to shut it down or restart it. ([#27489](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/27489))
+- (Contrib) `processor/resourcedetection`: Add `processor.resourcedetection.hostCPUSteppingAsString` feature gate to change the type of `host.cpu.stepping` from `int` to `string`. ([#31136](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/31136))
+  This feature gate will graduate to beta in the next release.
+- (Contrib) `routingconnector`: a warning is logged if there are two or more routing items with the same routing statement ([#30663](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/30663))
+- (Contrib) `pkg/ottl`: Add new IsInt function to facilitate type checking. ([#27894](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/27894))
+- (Contrib) `cmd/mdatagen`: Make lifecycle tests generated by default ([#31532](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/31532))
+- (Contrib) `pkg/stanza`: Improve timestamp parsing documentation ([#31490](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/31490))
+- (Contrib) `postgresqlreceiver`: Add `receiver.postgresql.connectionPool` feature gate to reuse database connections ([#30831](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/30831))
+  The default implementation recreates and closes connections on each scrape per database configured/discovered.
+  This change offers a feature gated alternative to keep connections open. Also, it exposes connection configuration to control the behavior of the pool.
+
+### 🧰 Bug fixes 🧰
+
+- (Core) `configretry`: Allow max_elapsed_time to be set to 0 for indefinite retries ([#9641](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/9641))
+- (Core) `client`: Make `Metadata.Get` thread safe ([#9595](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/9595))
+- (Contrib) `carbonreceiver`: Accept carbon metrics with float timestamps ([#31312](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/31312))
+- (Contrib) `journaldreceiver`: Fix bug where failed startup could bury error message due to panic during shutdown ([#31476](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/31476))
+- (Contrib) `loadbalancingexporter`: Fixes a bug where the endpoint become required, despite not being used by the load balancing exporter. ([#31371](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/31371))
+- (Contrib) `oracledbreceiver`: Use metadata.Type for the scraper id to avoid invalid scraper IDs. ([#31457](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/31457))
+- (Contrib) `filelogreceiver`: Fix bug where delete_after_read would cause panic ([#31383](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/31383))
+- (Contrib) `receiver/filelog`: Fix issue where file fingerprint could be corrupted while reading. ([#22936](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/22936))
+
 ## v0.96.0
 
 This Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector release includes changes from the [opentelemetry-collector v0.96.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/releases/tag/v0.96.0) and the [opentelemetry-collector-contrib v0.96.0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/releases/tag/v0.96.0) releases where appropriate.
@@ -12,15 +58,15 @@ This Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector release includes changes from the [opentelem
 
 ### 💡 Enhancements 💡
 
-- Bump github.com/prometheus/common from 0.46.0 to 0.49.0  ([#4353](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4382))
-- Bumps [aquasecurity/trivy-action](https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-action) from 0.17.0 to 0.18.0 ([#4382](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4382))
-- Update splunk-otel-javaagent to latest ([#4402](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4402))
-- Add X-SF-Token header to the configuration masked keys ([#4403](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4403))
-- Bump setuptools in /internal/signalfx-agent/bundle/script([#4330](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4403))
-- Rocky Linux installation support ([#4398](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4398 ))
-- Add a test to check what we choose to redact ([#4406](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4406))
-- Fixed high alert vulnerabity ([#4407](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4407))
-- Update pgproto to 2.3.3  ([#4409](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4409))
+- (Splunk) Bump github.com/prometheus/common from 0.46.0 to 0.49.0  ([#4353](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4382))
+- (Splunk) Bumps [aquasecurity/trivy-action](https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-action) from 0.17.0 to 0.18.0 ([#4382](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4382))
+- (Splunk) Update splunk-otel-javaagent to latest ([#4402](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4402))
+- (Splunk) Add X-SF-Token header to the configuration masked keys ([#4403](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4403))
+- (Splunk) Bump setuptools in /internal/signalfx-agent/bundle/script([#4330](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4403))
+- (Splunk) Rocky Linux installation support ([#4398](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4398 ))
+- (Splunk) Add a test to check what we choose to redact ([#4406](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4406))
+- (Splunk) Fixed high alert vulnerabity ([#4407](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4407))
+- (Splunk) Update pgproto to 2.3.3  ([#4409](https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/pull/4409))****
 
 ## v0.95.0