1.40.1 (2025-09-26)

Features

• bigtable: Add an e2e flow for direct access with instructions (#12939) (fdcdde8)

Bug Fixes

• bigtable: Release bigtable as 1.40.1 (#12961) (33e1474)
• bigtable: Use stable stats.NewMetricSet (#12941) (2c713d7)