Merge branch 'release/4.44.0' into master #1090

Job	Run time
Run tests with different pydantic versions	3m 37s
Run tests with coverage	3m 1s
Run linters (flake8)	1m 45s
Run tests (3.8)	2m 9s
Run linters (pydocstyle)	1m 57s
Run tests on legacy versions (3.7)	2m 12s
Run tests (3.9)	2m 2s
Run linters (mypy)	1m 48s
Run tests (3.10)	1m 56s
Run linters (pylint)	1m 54s
Run tests (3.11)	2m 4s
Run tests (3.12)	2m 1s
Run tests (3.13)	2m 25s
	28m 51s

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