[chore] Prepare release v1.30.0/v0.124.0 (open-telemetry#12834)

The following commands were run to prepare this release:
- make chlog-update VERSION=v1.30.0/v0.124.0
- make prepare-release PREVIOUS_VERSION=1[.]29[.]0
RELEASE_CANDIDATE=1.30.0 MODSET=stable
- make prepare-release PREVIOUS_VERSION=0[.]123[.]0
RELEASE_CANDIDATE=0.124.0 MODSET=beta

Author: opentelemetrybot

.chloggen/add-metric-name-variable.yaml

@@ -7,6 +7,23 @@ If you are looking for user-facing changes, check out [CHANGELOG.md](./CHANGELOG
 
 <!-- next version -->
 
+## v1.30.0/v0.124.0
+
+### 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑
+
+- `exporterbatcher`: Remove deprecated package exporterbatcher (#12780)
+- `exporterqueue`: Remove deprecated package exporterqueue (#12779)
+
+### 💡 Enhancements 💡
+
+- `mdatagen`: Add variable for metric name in mdatagen (#12459)
+  Access metric name via `metadata.MetricsInfo.<metric-variable>.Name`
+- `client`: Add support for iterating over client metadata keys (#12804)
+- `service`: Adds the GetFactory interface to the hostcapabilities package (#12789)
+- `cmd/mdatagen`: Add the foundational changes necessary for supporting logs data in `mdatagen` (#12571)
+
+<!-- previous-version -->
+
 ## v1.29.0/v0.123.0
 
 ### 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

.chloggen/bytes-based-batching-profiles.yaml

@@ -7,6 +7,20 @@ If you are looking for developer-facing changes, check out [CHANGELOG-API.md](./
 
 <!-- next version -->
 
+## v1.30.0/v0.124.0
+
+### 💡 Enhancements 💡
+
+- `exporterhelper`: Add support for bytes-based batching for profiles in the exporterhelper package. (#3262)
+- `otelcol`: Enhance config validation using <validate> command to capture all validation errors that prevents the collector from starting. (#8721)
+- `exporterhelper`: Link batcher context to all batched request's span contexts. (#12212, #8122)
+
+### 🧰 Bug fixes 🧰
+
+- `confighttp`: Ensure http authentication server failures are handled by the provided error handler (#12666)
+
+<!-- previous-version -->
+
 ## v1.29.0/v0.123.0
 
 ### 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑

.chloggen/client-metadata-keys.yaml

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ go 1.23.0
 
 require (
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.10.0
-	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/consumer v1.29.0
-	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata v1.29.0
+	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/consumer v1.30.0
+	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata v1.30.0
 	go.uber.org/goleak v1.3.0
 )
 

.chloggen/document_get_factory_interface.yaml

@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
-	defaultBetaOtelColVersion   = "v0.123.0"
-	defaultStableOtelColVersion = "v1.29.0"
+	defaultBetaOtelColVersion   = "v0.124.0"
+	defaultStableOtelColVersion = "v1.30.0"
 )
 
 // errMissingGoMod indicates an empty gomod field

.chloggen/enhance_config-validation.yaml

@@ -10,29 +10,29 @@ dist:
   module: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/cmd/otelcorecol
   name: otelcorecol
   description: Local OpenTelemetry Collector binary, testing only.
-  version: 0.123.0-dev
+  version: 0.124.0-dev
 
 receivers:
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/nopreceiver v0.123.0
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/otlpreceiver v0.123.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/nopreceiver v0.124.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/otlpreceiver v0.124.0
 exporters:
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/debugexporter v0.123.0
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/nopexporter v0.123.0
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/otlpexporter v0.123.0
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/otlphttpexporter v0.123.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/debugexporter v0.124.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/nopexporter v0.124.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/otlpexporter v0.124.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/otlphttpexporter v0.124.0
 extensions:
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/extension/memorylimiterextension v0.123.0
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/extension/zpagesextension v0.123.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/extension/memorylimiterextension v0.124.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/extension/zpagesextension v0.124.0
 processors:
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/processor/batchprocessor v0.123.0
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/processor/memorylimiterprocessor v0.123.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/processor/batchprocessor v0.124.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/processor/memorylimiterprocessor v0.124.0
 connectors:
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/connector/forwardconnector v0.123.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/connector/forwardconnector v0.124.0
 
 providers:
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/envprovider v1.29.0
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/fileprovider v1.29.0
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/httpprovider v1.29.0
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/httpsprovider v1.29.0
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/yamlprovider v1.29.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/envprovider v1.30.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/fileprovider v1.30.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/httpprovider v1.30.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/httpsprovider v1.30.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/yamlprovider v1.30.0
 

.chloggen/fix-confighttp-auth-error.yaml

@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ dist:
   go: ${GOBIN}
 
 extensions:
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/extension/zpagesextension v0.123.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/extension/zpagesextension v0.124.0
 
 receivers:
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/otlpreceiver v0.123.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/otlpreceiver v0.124.0
 
 exporters:
-  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/debugexporter v0.123.0
+  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/debugexporter v0.124.0