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# Salt 3008.1 release notes

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## Changelog

### Fixed

- Deferred OpenTelemetry imports in `salt.utils.tracing` and `salt.utils.metrics` so daemons no longer pay the ~15 MB per-process OTel import cost when `tracing.enabled` / `metrics.enabled` are false (the default). On a stress-tested salt-master container (~15 Python processes) this reclaims ~225 MB per subsystem — restoring the pre-3008.x baseline. [#69855](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/69855)
