Merge branch 'release/4.44.0' into master #1097

Job	Run time
Run tests with coverage	3m 4s
Run tests on legacy versions (3.7)	2m 15s
Run tests with different pydantic versions	3m 35s
Run linters (flake8)	1m 50s
Run linters (pydocstyle)	1m 46s
Run tests (3.8)	1m 57s
Run linters (mypy)	1m 50s
Run tests (3.9)	2m 1s
Run linters (pylint)	1m 51s
Run tests (3.10)	1m 59s
Run tests (3.11)	1m 55s
Run tests (3.12)	2m 7s
Run tests (3.13)	2m 25s
	28m 35s

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