docs: add prerelease-quirks entry for 2.11.1a3

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Adds a docs/prerelease-quirks.md file for this repo, following the convention already used elsewhere, and records the behavior change in the just-released 2.11.1a3: UtteranceTransformersService and MetadataTransformersService no longer merge a transformer's returned context into itself when the transformer hands back the same object it received, which previously produced a RecursionError on nested self-returned contexts and lost caller context identity for an empty dict.

The entry also notes that transformer debug logging is now gated behind an active-debug-level check and strips the session key from the logged context before emitting it.

README.md and docs/transformers.md were checked for claims contradicted by this change; none were found, so no other files were touched.

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Current: 2.11.1a3 → Next: 2.11.1a4

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Predicted next version: 2.11.1a4

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Stable	❌	Too new (must be <0.10.0)	ovos-plugin-manager>=0.9.0,<0.10.0
Testing	✅	Compatible	ovos-plugin-manager>=1.0.3,<3.0.0
Alpha	✅	Compatible	ovos-plugin-manager>=2.11.1a3

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Latest Version: 2.11.1a3

✅ ovos_plugin_manager/version.py — Version file
✅ README.md — README
✅ LICENSE — License file
✅ pyproject.toml — pyproject.toml
⚠️ setup.py — setup.py
✅ CHANGELOG.md — Changelog
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