Merge branch 'release/4.44.0' into master #1095

Job	Run time
Run tests with coverage	3m 1s
Run tests with different pydantic versions	3m 34s
Run linters (flake8)	1m 53s
Run tests (3.8)	1m 58s
Run linters (pydocstyle)	1m 47s
Run tests on legacy versions (3.7)	2m 14s
Run tests (3.9)	1m 56s
Run linters (mypy)	1m 48s
Run tests (3.10)	1m 58s
Run linters (pylint)	1m 55s
Run tests (3.11)	1m 56s
Run tests (3.12)	2m 1s
Run tests (3.13)	2m 23s
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