Merge branch 'release/4.44.0' into master #1091

Job	Run time
Run tests with different pydantic versions	3m 32s
Run tests (3.8)	2m 32s
Run tests (3.9)	1m 56s
Run tests on legacy versions (3.7)	2m 17s
Run tests (3.10)	1m 57s
Run linters (flake8)	1m 55s
Run tests (3.11)	2m 1s
Run linters (pydocstyle)	1m 51s
Run tests (3.12)	2m 10s
Run tests with coverage	2m 57s
Run tests (3.13)	2m 24s
Run linters (mypy)	1m 51s
Run linters (pylint)	1m 50s
	29m 13s

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