chore: release API 1.7.0/Core 1.18.0/Experimental 0.45.0

[pichlermarc]

API 1.7.0

🚀 (Enhancement)

• feat(metrics): prototype experimental advice support #3876 @legendecas
• feat(api): publish api esnext target #4231 @legendecas

Core 1.18.0

🚀 (Enhancement)

• feat(metrics): prototype experimental advice support #3876 @legendecas

🐛 (Bug Fix)

• fix(core): remove re-export of version.ts #4225 @david-luna

🏠 (Internal)

• chore: track package-lock.json #4238 @legendecas
  • Switched to npm workspaces to bootstrap dependencies.

Experimental 0.45.0

💥 Breaking Change

• fix(sdk-node)!: remove the explicit dependency on @opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger that was kept on the previous release
  • '@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger' is no longer be a dependency of this package. To continue using '@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger', please install it manually.
    • NOTE: @opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger is deprecated, consider switching to one of the alternatives described here
• fix(otlp-transformer)!: OTLP json encoding #4220 @seemk
  • Fixes a bug in the OTLP (http/json) exporters where timestamps were not encoded as strings, causing the export to
    be rejected by OTLP endpoints

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[evantorrie]

LGTM

[Fryuni]

Why a minor bump on the experimental packages if there were only fixes and internal changes?

By semver before v1 the minor should be for breaking changes and there was none, right?

[Flarna]

Why a minor bump on the experimental packages if there were only fixes and internal changes?

Isn't the fix for the breaking change in JSON export actually again a breaking change? So I think a minor bump is correct.
One could argue that release notes should reflect this.

[pichlermarc]

Why a minor bump on the experimental packages if there were only fixes and internal changes?

By semver before v1 the minor should be for breaking changes and there was none, right?

@opentelemetry/sdk-node has a breaking change that requires users to manually install the @opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger package if they want to use it. While @opentelemetry/otlp-transformer is not intended for public consumption, I'd still agree with Flarna that this change itself was breaking (modified the signature for createExportLogsServiceRequest in a breaking way), and therefore bumping minor is appropriate.

Edit: adapted the changelog to reflect that.