Backend Changes

⛔ Breaking Changes

• Fix hotrod instructions (@yurishkuro in #5273)

🐞 Bug fixes, Minor Improvements

• Refactor healthcheck signaling between server and service (@WillSewell in #5308)
• Docs: badger file permission as non-root service (@tico88612 in #5282)
• [kafka-consumer] add support for setting fetch message max bytes (@sappusaketh in #5283)
• [chore] remove repetitive words (@tgolang in #5265)
• Fix zipkin spanformat (@fyuan1316 in #5261)
• [kafka-producer] support setting max message size (@sappusaketh in #5263)

🚧 Experimental Features

• [jaeger-v2] add support for opensearch (@akagami-harsh in #5257)
• [jaeger-v2] add support for cassandra (@Pushkarm029 in #5253)

👷 CI Improvements

• Allow go-leak linter to fail ci (@yurishkuro in #5316)
• [jaeger-v2] add grpc storage backend integration test (@james-ryans in #5259)
• Github actions added to block prs from fork/main branch (@varshith257 in #5272)

📊 UI Changes

• UI pinned to version 1.40.0.