Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into PECOBLR-993

Author: nikhilsuri-db

CHANGELOG.md

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 # Release History
 
+# 4.2.0 (2025-11-14)
+- Add multi-statement transaction support (databricks/databricks-sql-python#704 by @jayantsing-db)
+- Add a workflow to parallelise the E2E tests (databricks/databricks-sql-python#697 by @msrathore-db)
+- Bring Python telemetry event model consistent with JDBC (databricks/databricks-sql-python#701 by @nikhilsuri-db)
+
 # 4.1.4 (2025-10-15)
 - Add support for Token Federation (databricks/databricks-sql-python#691 by @madhav-db)
 - Add metric view support (databricks/databricks-sql-python#688 by @shivam2680)

README.md

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 > to authenticate the target Databricks user account and needs to open the browser for authentication. So it 
 > can only run on the user's machine.
 
+## Transaction Support
+
+The connector supports multi-statement transactions with manual commit/rollback control. Set `connection.autocommit = False` to disable autocommit mode, then use `connection.commit()` and `connection.rollback()` to control transactions.
+
+For detailed documentation, examples, and best practices, see **[TRANSACTIONS.md](TRANSACTIONS.md)**.
+
 ## SQLAlchemy
 Starting from `databricks-sql-connector` version 4.0.0 SQLAlchemy support has been extracted to a new library `databricks-sqlalchemy`.