26.1.0

Breaking Changes:

• Return status code 413 if a request is rejected due to size limits. (#5474)

Features:

• Updates rdkafka to 2.10 which fixes some protocol incompatibilities with Kafka 4. (#5523)
• Add sentry.category normalization for V2 spans. (#5533)
• Include cache write token cost in cost calculation for gen_ai spans. (#5530)

Bug Fixes:

• Write item IDs of logs, metrics and trace attachments in correct byte order. (#5526)
• Reworked AI span extraction to also take trace context into account. (#5515)
• Mark root spans (spans without a parent) as segments in OTEL conversion. (#5532)

Internal:

• Release Docker image to GHCR and DockerHub via Craft. (#5509)
• Tag span usage and count_per_root_project metrics with segment information. (#5511)
• Experimental support for loading configuration values from files. (#5531)
• Remove support for global quotas. (#5534)