changelog: add entry for _set_status fix (#3713)

Author: RiyaChaturvedi37

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ## Unreleased
 
 ## Version 1.41.0/0.62b0 (2026-04-09)
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 ### Added
 
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-asgi`: Respect `suppress_http_instrumentation` context in ASGI middleware to skip server span creation when HTTP instrumentation is suppressed
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- `opentelemetry-instrumentation`: fix `_set_status` overriding existing span status and description ([#4410](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/4410))
 - `opentelemetry-docker-tests`: Replace deprecated `SpanAttributes` from `opentelemetry.semconv.trace` with `opentelemetry.semconv._incubating.attributes`
  ([#4339](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/4339))
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka`: Skip `recv` span creation when `poll()` returns no message or `consume()` returns an empty list, avoiding empty spans on idle polls
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc`: Fix bidirectional streaming RPCs raising `AttributeError: 'generator' object has no attribute 'add_done_callback'`
   ([#4259](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/4259))
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiokafka`: fix `Unclosed AIOKafkaProducer` warning and `RuntimeWarning: coroutine was never awaited` in tests
-  ([#4384](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/4384)) 
+  ([#4384](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/4384))
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiokafka`: Fix compatibility with aiokafka 0.13 by calling
   `_key_serializer`/`_value_serializer` directly instead of the internal `_serialize` method
   whose signature changed in 0.13 from `(topic, key, value)` to `(key, value, headers)`