Release v1.46.0 Checklist

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Tracks preparation, publication, and follow-up for the v1.46.0 release.

Scope and stability

• Classify every open Logs compliance audit as an API GA blocker, SDK follow-up, or explicit defer.
• Make the Logs API GA go/no-go decision by 2026-08-28.
• Decide which Logs modules move into stable-v1 and which remain experimental.
• Freeze the exported Logs API and publish migration guidance.
• Decide whether a new semantic-conventions package is included.
• Remove candidates that miss the 2026-08-21 readiness cutoff.

Validation and prerelease

• Ensure all release-blocking issues and pull requests are merged.
• Update module-set versions in versions.yaml.
• Run make gorelease and resolve unintended API changes.
• Run the repository validation suite.
• Verify compatibility with opentelemetry-go-contrib.
• Curate the v1.46.0 changelog and release notes.
• Run make prerelease MODSET=<module set> for every released module set and verify the generated changes.
• Merge the approved release pull request.

Tag and publish

• Run make add-tags for every released module set using the exact release commit.
• Verify and push all tags to the upstream repository.
• Verify and sign the release archives.
• Publish the immutable GitHub release with notes and signed assets.

Post-release

• Publish the matching opentelemetry-go-contrib release.
• Update website documentation and referenced package versions.
• Add all included completed issues and merged pull requests to this milestone.
• Close the v1.46.0 milestone after reconciliation.