Release 1.41.0/0.63.0/0.17.0/0.0.15

[pellared]

This release is the last to support Go 1.24.
The next release will require at least Go 1.25.

Added

• Support testing of Go 1.26. (Support Go 1.26 #7902)

Fixed

• Update Baggage in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation and Parse and New in go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage to comply with W3C Baggage specification limits.
  New and Parse now return partial baggage along with an error when limits are exceeded.
  Errors from baggage extraction are reported to the global error handler. (Comply with W3C Baggage specification limits #7880)

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 81.7%. Comparing base (66fc10d) to head (f1612a5).
⚠️ Report is 1 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

@@           Coverage Diff           @@
##            main   #7977     +/-   ##
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- Coverage   81.7%   81.7%   -0.1%     
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  Files        304     304             
  Lines      23339   23339             
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- Hits       19086   19085      -1     
- Misses      3865    3866      +1     
  Partials     388     388             

Files with missing lines	Coverage Δ
bridge/opencensus/version.go	100.0% <100.0%> (ø)
...xporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc/version.go	100.0% <100.0%> (ø)
...xporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp/version.go	100.0% <100.0%> (ø)
exporters/otlp/otlptrace/version.go	100.0% <100.0%> (ø)
sdk/metric/version.go	100.0% <100.0%> (ø)
sdk/version.go	100.0% <100.0%> (ø)
version.go	100.0% <100.0%> (ø)

... and 3 files with indirect coverage changes

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