[RELEASE] Quarkus 3.26.0

[Guillaume Smet]

Hello,

Quarkus 3.26.0 has been released, and is now available from the Maven Central repository. The quickstarts and documentation have also been updated.

More information in the announcement blog post: https://quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-3-26-released/.

* Major changes:

  * [#49429] Update to Hibernate ORM 7.1, Hibernate Search 8.1, and Hibernate Reactive 3.1

  * [#48007] Support named persistence units and data sources in Hibernate Reactive
  * [#49408] Offline startup and dialect configuration for Hibernate ORM

  * [#49165] DevUI HQL console redesign + Hibernate Assistant functionality

  * [#47414] Expose DevUI's capabilities as MCP functions

  * [#49003] OIDC Client filter - allow to trigger token refresh when REST client request results in 401
  * [#49042] Support for customizing request and response body in OIDC filters

  * [#48687] Add functionality to capture Quarkus application runtime data using JFR extension

  * [#49256] Bump Gradle version to 9.0.0

* BOM dependency:

  <dependency>
      <groupId>io.quarkus.platform</groupId>
      <artifactId>quarkus-bom</artifactId>
      <version>3.26.0</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
  </dependency>

* Changelogs are available from https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/releases/tag/3.26.0.CR1 and https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/releases/tag/3.26.0
* Download is available from https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/releases/tag/3.26.0
* Documentation: https://quarkus.io

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The Quarkus dev team