v1.41.0-rc1

1.41.0-rc1 (2025-12-09)

Features

• configure rc releases to be on prerelease mode (a385211)
• Introduce per-credential specific load methods (#1827) (39fdc64)
• update protobuf version to 4.33.0 and http-client to 2.1.0-rc1 (#1853) (4fcb1fc)

Bug Fixes

• allow -rc releases in MetricsUtilsTest (d19b976)
• Do not retrieve the default SA principal when getting an access token (#1839) (a65c22d)
• next release candidate (6e3911f)