changelog

Author: adinauer

CHANGELOG.md

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 ### Fixes
 
+- Inject Kafka trace headers even without an active span so distributed tracing works for background workers and `@Scheduled` jobs ([#5338](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/5338))
 - Write the `sentry-task-enqueued-time` Kafka header as a plain decimal so cross-SDK consumers (e.g. sentry-python) can parse it ([#5328](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/5328))
 
 ## 8.37.1