NEWS.md: add release notes for v0.41.0

Problem: there are no release notes for v0.41.0.

Add them.

NEWS.md

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+flux-sched version 0.41.0 - 2025-01-15
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+### New Features
+ * qmanager: track API changes in core (#1320)
+ * qmanager: send partial-ok with sched.hello (#1321)
+ * qmanager: remove no-longer-supported schedutil_free_respond() (#1325)
+
+### Fixes
+ * traverser: clear traverser before traversal operations in dfu (#1323)
+
+### Build/Testsuite
+ * t: update job.exception output checks (#1315)
+ * ci: temporarily drop alpine (#1327)
+
+
 flux-sched version 0.40.0 - 2024-11-06
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