[docs] Persistent firmware upgrades midterm blog

[Eeshu-Yadav]

Adds the Persistent & Scheduled Firmware Upgrades section to the GSoC 26 midterm report, filling the stub with a summary of the persistence work.

Covers the new pending state and background retry loop, the openwisp-monitoring fast-recovery path, and the admin/REST API/reminder surfaces, with links to issue #379 and PR #436. The Video. placeholder is left in place like the other sections, to be filled once the demo is recorded.

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the GSoC 2026 midterm report blog post by filling in the previously-stubbed “Persistent & Scheduled Firmware Upgrades” section with a detailed progress summary and adding an additional author.

Changes:

• Added “Eeshu Yadav” to the post’s :authors: metadata.
• Replaced the “Summary of progress.” placeholder with a detailed write-up covering the new pending state, retry loop, monitoring fast-recovery path, and admin/REST/reminder surfaces (with links to the relevant issue/PRs).

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