Version 1.40.0/0.61b0

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• opentelemetry-sdk: deprecate LoggingHandler in favor of opentelemetry-instrumentation-logging, see opentelemetry-instrumentation-logging documentation (#4919)
• opentelemetry-sdk: Clarify log processor error handling expectations in documentation (#4915)
• bump semantic-conventions to v1.40.0 (#4941)
• Add stale PR GitHub Action (#4926)
• opentelemetry-sdk: Drop unused Jaeger exporter environment variables (exporter removed in 1.22.0) (#4918)
• opentelemetry-sdk: Clarify timeout units in environment variable documentation (#4906)
• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc: Fix re-initialization of gRPC channel on UNAVAILABLE error (#4825)
• opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus: Fix duplicate HELP/TYPE declarations for metrics with different label sets (#4868)
• Allow loading all resource detectors by setting OTEL_EXPERIMENTAL_RESOURCE_DETECTORS to * (#4819)
• opentelemetry-sdk: Fix the type hint of the _metrics_data property to allow None (#4837).
• Regenerate opentelemetry-proto code with v1.9.0 release (#4840)
• Add python 3.14 support (#4798)
• Silence events API warnings for internal users (#4847)
• opentelemetry-sdk: make it possible to override the default processors in the SDK configurator (#4806)
• Prevent possible endless recursion from happening in SimpleLogRecordProcessor.on_emit, (#4799) and (#4867).
• Implement span start/end metrics (#4880)
• Add environment variable carriers to API (#4609)
• Add experimental composable rule based sampler (#4882)
• Make ConcurrentMultiSpanProcessor fork safe (#4862)
• opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http: fix retry logic and error handling for connection failures in trace, metric, and log exporters (#4709)
• opentelemetry-sdk: avoid RuntimeError during iteration of view instrument match dictionary in MetricReaderStorage.collect() (#4891)
• Implement experimental TracerConfigurator (#4861)
• opentelemetry-sdk: Fix instrument creation race condition (#4913)
• bump semantic-conventions to v1.39.0 (#4914)
• opentelemetry-sdk: automatically generate configuration models using OTel config JSON schema (#4879)

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