Release 26.1.0

[StpMax]

Description

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Fixes #issue_number

Type of change

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• 🐛 Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• ⚡ New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• 📢 Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality not to work as expected)
• 📄 This change requires a documentation update

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Checklist:

• My code follows the style guidelines(PEP 8) of MindsDB.
• I have appropriately commented on my code, especially in complex areas.
• Necessary documentation updates are either made or tracked in issues.
• Relevant unit and integration tests are updated or added.

[hamishfagg]

With #12250 I dont think it makes sense to keep the community handler tests in this repo. The community handlers should be tested where they reside. That repo can install mindsdb to test them, rather than this repo testing a remote repo.

[entelligence-ai-pr-reviews]

EntelligenceAI PR Summary

Bumps the MindsDB package version from 26.1.0rc1 to 26.1.0 in __about__.py, marking the official stable release.

• Version string updated in mindsdb/__about__.py
• No functional, behavioral, or code logic changes included

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Confidence Score: 5/5 - Safe to Merge

Safe to merge — this PR contains a single, isolated version bump in mindsdb/__about__.py from 26.1.0rc1 to 26.1.0, representing the promotion of a release candidate to a stable release. No functional code, logic, configuration, or behavioral changes are present anywhere in the diff. This is a textbook version-string-only release PR with zero risk surface.

Key Findings:

• mindsdb/__about__.py change is limited to updating the version string from 26.1.0rc1 to 26.1.0, which is the sole and expected modification for a stable release promotion.
• No logic, imports, dependencies, or runtime-affecting code were modified, making regression risk effectively zero.
• No review comments were raised, no pre-existing unresolved issues are associated with this PR, and full file coverage was achieved on the single changed file.

Files requiring special attention

• mindsdb/__about__.py