Merge branch 'release/4.44.0' into master #1096

Job	Run time
Run linters (flake8)	1m 45s
Run tests with different pydantic versions	3m 34s
Run linters (pydocstyle)	1m 44s
Run linters (mypy)	1m 49s
Run linters (pylint)	1m 59s
Run tests (3.8)	2m 5s
Run tests on legacy versions (3.7)	2m 19s
Run tests (3.9)	2m 2s
Run tests (3.10)	2m 0s
Run tests (3.11)	1m 53s
Run tests (3.12)	2m 4s
Run tests (3.13)	2m 26s
Run tests with coverage	2m 57s
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