Integration: 2026.w38

- #544 [FHI72] Update the K release tag
- #546 fix(phy, nr_ue): prevent TRS from overwriting CQI in MAC
- #550 e1ap: add Required-To-Modify list to Modification Required
- #542 vrtsim: retry taps.fbs download and reject empty files
- #498 NAS: bound the Protocol Configuration Options container loop
- #384 ue: fix DL HARQ soft combining under LBRM and protect reused HARQ PIDs
- #556 T tracer: minor: fix compilation warning
- #435 Adding Metanoia Cobra FR1 to CI + Cobra FR2 configuration file and documentation updates
- #548 fix(phy): avoid CFO quantization in frequency compensation
- #564 fix(oru): match eCPRI traffic by ethertype instead of RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_ECPRI
- #562 Add channel model 5 (beamforming) support to vrtsim
- #553 UHD v4.11.0.0
- #496 NAS/NR_UE: fix unbounded optional-IE loop in Registration Accept
- #545 Use FFT shifted buffer in UE PHY functions
- #448 NewDFT for all sizes with both NEON and SVE2
- #344 E3AP: service-model infrastructure and L1-KPM service model for post-FFT IQ
- #565 Bit-based functions for ceil and floor of log2
- #547 PUCCH F2 L1 computation improvements
- #534 Reworking RFsim beam management
- #447 fix buffer overflow in dot_product() usage by pss search function
- #333 XnAP integration: Support to build, creation of XnAP task, Xn instance, neighbour trees, encoder, decoder, handling ITTI messages and call backs
- #524 test(oru): add CI testcase for O-RU with BFP compression enabled
- #186 Add new config files for n100 and n101
- #183 TX optimizations for gNB.
- #563 Optimize gpu channel_pipeline_init() to take in rx/tx antenna for faster runtime on small datasets
- ci: Adjust timing thresholds in RAN-PhySim-GraceHopper-5G
- #269 Optimize SR handling for 100 UEs
- #552 [E2 AGENT] Implement E2SM-RC On Demand Report and Handover Control

Closes: #363