Release v0.12.0 (#1918)

Author: jchengsfx

CHANGELOG.md

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 ## Unreleased
 
+## v0.12.0 Beta
+
+## 🚀 New components 🚀
+
+- `configauth` package with the auth settings that can be used by receivers (#1807, #1808, #1809, #1810)
+- `perfcounters` package that uses perflib for host metrics receiver (#1835, #1836, #1868, #1869, #1870)
+
+## 💡 Enhancements 💡
+
+- Remove `queued_retry` and enable `otlp` metrics receiver in default config (#1823, #1838)
+- Add `limit_percentage` and `spike_limit_percentage` options to `memorylimiter` processor (#1622)
+- `hostmetrics` receiver:
+  - Collect additional labels from partitions in the filesystems scraper (#1858)
+  - Add filters for mount point and filesystem type (#1866)
+- Add cloud.provider semantic conventions (#1865)
+- `attribute` processor: Add log support (#1783)
+- Deprecate OpenCensus-based internal data structures (#1843)
+- Introduce SpanID data type, not yet used in Protobuf messages ($1854, #1855)
+- Enable `otlp` trace by default in the released docker image (#1883)
+- `tailsampling` processor: Combine batches of spans into a single batch (#1864)
+- `filter` processor: Update to use pdata (#1885)
+- Allow MSI upgrades (#1914)
+
+## 🧰 Bug fixes 🧰
+
+- `prometheus` receiver: Print a more informative message about 'up' metric value (#1826)
+- Use custom data type and custom JSON serialization for traceid (#1840)
+- Skip creation of redundant nil resource in translation from OC if there are no combined metrics (#1803)
+- `tailsampling` processor: Only send to next consumer once (#1735)
+- Report Windows pagefile usage in bytes (#1837)
+- Fix issue where Prometheus SD config cannot be parsed (#1877)
+
 ## v0.11.0 Beta
 
 ## 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑