add changelog entry for PR open-telemetry#4985

Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Author: MikeGoldsmith

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- `opentelemetry-sdk`: Add `create_tracer_provider`/`configure_tracer_provider` to declarative file configuration, enabling TracerProvider instantiation from config files without reading env vars
+  ([#4985](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4985))
 - `opentelemetry-sdk`: Add `create_resource` and `create_propagator`/`configure_propagator` to declarative file configuration, enabling Resource and propagator instantiation from config files without reading env vars
   ([#4979](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4979))
 - `opentelemetry-sdk`: Add file configuration support with YAML/JSON loading, environment variable substitution, and schema validation against the vendored OTel config JSON schema