The dependabot is bumping the otel collector builder's version, but not regenerating the otel-collector distribution which gives bad confidence when executing the integration tests. During the PR validation the integration tests run with the old version of the collector which gives false results that everything is alright.
We should adjust the dependabot PR behavior when bumping the builder and regenerate the distribution and the integration tests (practically we should run the scripts/regenerate-otel-collector-distribution script and then let the integration tests run. If there are some problems, the integration tests will fail and we should fix something. This can happen if something changes (mostly component deprecation and breaking changes) in the Otel Collector.