Release v0.26.0 (#3092)

Author: jchengsfx

CHANGELOG.md

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 ## Unreleased
 
-- `zipkin` translator: Handle missing starttime case for zipkin json v2 format spans (#2506)
+## v0.26.0 Beta
 
 ## 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑
 
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 ## 💡 Enhancements 💡
 
+- `kafka` exporter: Add logs support (#2943)
+- Add AppendEmpty and deprecate Append for slices (#2970)
+- Update mdatagen to create factories of init instead of new (#2978)
+- `zipkin` receiver: Reduce the judgment of zipkin v1 version (#2990)
+- Custom authenticator logic to accept a `component.Host` which will extract the authenticator to use based on a new authenticator name property (#2767)
+- `prometheusremotewrite` exporter: Add `resource_to_telemetry_conversion` config option (#3031)
+- `logging` exporter: Extract OTLP text logging (#3082)
+- Format timestamps as strings instead of int in otlptext output (#3088)
+- Add darwin arm64 build (#3090)
+
 ## 🧰 Bug fixes 🧰
 
 - Fix Jaeger receiver to honor TLS Settings (#2866)
+- `zipkin` translator: Handle missing starttime case for zipkin json v2 format spans (#2506)
+- `prometheus` exporter: Fix OTEL resource label drops (#2899)
+- `prometheusremotewrite` exporter:
+  - Enable the queue internally (#2974)
+  - Don't drop instance and job labels (#2979)
+- `jaeger` receiver: Wait for server goroutines exit on shutdown (#2985)
+- `logging` exporter: Ignore invalid handle on close (#2994)
+- Fix service zpages (#2996)
+- `batch` processor: Fix to avoid reordering and send max size (#3029)
+
 
 ## v0.25.0 Beta