* [**Breaking Change**] Support sharding MySQL database instances and tables by [Shardingsphere-Proxy](https://shardingsphere.apache.org/document/current/en/overview/#shardingsphere-proxy).
  SQL-Database requires removing tables `log_tag/segment_tag/zipkin_query` before OAP starts, if bump up from previous releases.

* Support `!= null` in OAL engine.
* Add `Message Queue Consuming Count` metric for MQ consuming service and endpoint.
* Add `Message Queue Avg Consuming Latency` metric for MQ consuming service and endpoint.
* Document with a new menu in the `tracing` catalog is added

Happy Chinese New Year !!

* Add Istio control plane otel MAL expressions and UI template
* Remove OpenCensus receiver, add OpenTelemetry receiver
* Transfer oc receiver to ot receiver
* Create indices on boot
* Document istio metrics and otel receiver
* Update CHANGES.md
* Fix potential NPE
* Add group to meter and cleanup istio mixer
* Update e2e case due to the change of meter metric name
* Update prometheus fetcher config, fix sql builder issue of h2
* Disable istio and so11y metrics by default.
* Fix micrometer testcase

* Add FAQ about VNode on the UI.
Co-authored-by: Nkezhenxu94 <kezhenxu94@apache.org>