Release v1.16.0

[mateuszrzeszutek]

This is a regular release that tracks the upstream instrumentation repo v1.18.0. If you want to extend the instrumentation manually, we suggest using the OpenTelemetry Java API version 1.18.0. For manually adding custom metrics we suggest using Micrometer version 1.9.4. Please consult the release notes linked above for upstream changes.

🗒 General

• OpenTelemetry Java SDK and OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for Java dependencies have been updated to version 1.18.0.
• Micrometer dependency has been updated to version 1.9.4.

🌟 Enhancements

• Implemented automatic service name detection for Spring Boot applications.
• Implemented automatic service name detection for servlet applications. The agent will now look for the value of the top-level display-name tag in the web.xml file and use it as the service.name resource attribute, in case the user hasn't provided it.

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