v0.26.0

🚀 Enhancement

• feat: let callers opt out of index creation with create_index=False #687 @vishal-bala @nkanu17
• fix(deps): require sentence-transformers >=5.2.0 to unblock a patched transformers @vishal-bala

🐛 Bug Fix

• fix: let a connection open when CLIENT SETINFO is denied #685 @vishal-bala
• fix(azure): gate live tests, add offline coverage, fix api_config and retry errors #696 @vishal-bala
• fix(ci): make the redis-py matrix axis actually test redis-py #689 @vishal-bala

CI/CD Changes

• ci: bump pinned uv to 0.12.3 and setup-uv to v10.0.0 #690 @vishal-bala