* Fix ALS K8SServiceRegistry didn't remove the correct entry

* Add changes
Co-authored-by: NZhenxu Ke <kezhenxu94@apache.org>

Add telemetry data about metrics in, metrics scraping and trace in metrics to zipkin receiver. (#6516)

Happy Chinese New Year !!

Add some defensive codes for NPE and bump up Kubernetes client version to expose exception stack trace (#6327)

* [maven-release-plugin] prepare release v8.4.0

* [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

Fix that the dynamic configuration is deleted on the server side but does not take effect on the agent. (#6255)
Co-authored-by: 吴晟 Wu Sheng <wu.sheng@foxmail.com>

* update submodule to sync namespaced proto files

* add compat E2E test and update mock collector

* add changelog, fix GHA syntax, compat Java agent

* highlight notes, use archive dist, revert compat in agent

* polish changelog, add missing `-javaagent` in provider

* fix wrong position of JAVA_OPTS

* polish changelog