Release v1.6.0/v0.31.0

[MrAlias]

Added

• The project is now tested against Go 1.18 (in addition to the existing 1.16 and 1.17) (Add Go 1.18 to compatibility tested versions #1976)

Changed

• Upgraded all dependencies on stable moduels from go.opentelemetry.io/otel from v1.5.0 to v1.6.1. (Release v1.6.0/v0.31.0 #2134)
• Upgraded all dependencies on metric moduels from go.opentelemetry.io/otel from v0.27.0 to v0.28.0. (Update Instrumentation to metrics v0.28.0 #1977)

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #2134 (52c1cc6) into main (01b0b2e) will increase coverage by 6.5%.
The diff coverage is 38.0%.

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+ Coverage   68.5%   75.1%   +6.5%     
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  Files        124     129      +5     
  Lines       5366    5431     +65     
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+ Hits        3680    4080    +400     
+ Misses      1582    1231    -351     
- Partials     104     120     +16     

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
detectors/aws/ec2/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
detectors/aws/ecs/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
detectors/aws/eks/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
detectors/gcp/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...thub.com/Shopify/sarama/otelsarama/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...github.com/astaxie/beego/otelbeego/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...tion/github.com/astaxie/beego/otelbeego/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...thub.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/otelaws/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...z/gomemcache/memcache/otelmemcache/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
...om/emicklei/go-restful/otelrestful/test/version.go	0.0% <0.0%> (ø)
... and 47 more