Integration: 2026.w40 - #609 Fix RFsim crash from #534 - #617 SECU: fetch HMAC from default OpenSSL context - #611 Evaluate PMI report regardless of RI - #629 avoid left shift of negative rx_offset in UE_synch - #624 ci: sync develop to internal repository on a push to develop - #626 [NR_PHY] Fix unaligned 256-QAM LLR stores - #555 nrUE: keep RRC frame timer ticking while out of sync - #633 oru: resolve DPDK virtual devices independently of their arguments - #625 [OAI O-RU] Support for C-plane Section Extension 1 parsing - #440 Codebook-based digital beamforming in O-RU. - #567 fix(ci): merge GitHub PR head locally - #614 gtpu: reject zero-length GTP-U extension header to prevent infinite loop - #634 runtime: retry interrupted ITTI and task-completion waits - #598 [nrUE] Fix interoperability with OCUDU gNB & document GEO NTN setup via ZMQ - #494 NR_MAC: spectrum sensing on reserved UL slots + Spectrum E3 service model - #537 Fix pdsch nvar - #595 doc(ci): Cleanup and update TESTBenches.md Closes: #607 Closes: #613 Closes: #616