Prepare before 1.14.4 release (#38106)

Author: hc-github-team-tf-core

.changes/1.14.4.md

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+## 1.14.4 (January 28, 2026)
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+BUG FIXES:
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+* backend: Fix nil pointer dereference crash during `terraform init` when the destination backend returns an error ([#38027](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/38027))
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+* Fixes an issue where any warning diagnostics generated during terraform query execution failed to render in the cloud backend session ([#38040](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/38040))
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+* actions in modules without instances failed the plan graph ([#38089](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/38089))
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.changes/v1.14/BUG FIXES-20251223-184516.yaml

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-## 1.14.4 (Unreleased)
+## 1.14.4 (January 28, 2026)
+
+
+BUG FIXES:
+
+* backend: Fix nil pointer dereference crash during `terraform init` when the destination backend returns an error ([#38027](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/38027))
+
+* Fixes an issue where any warning diagnostics generated during terraform query execution failed to render in the cloud backend session ([#38040](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/38040))
+
+* actions in modules without instances failed the plan graph ([#38089](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/38089))
+
 
 ## 1.14.3 (December 17, 2025)
 
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 * The parallelism of Terraform operations within container runtimes may be reduced depending on the CPU bandwidth limit setting. ([#37436](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/37436))
 
 * Building Terraform 1.14 requires macOS Monterey or later (due to being built on Go 1.25 which imposes these requirements) ([#37436](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/37436))
-EXPERIMENTS:
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-Experiments are only enabled in alpha releases of Terraform CLI. The following features are not yet available in stable releases.
 
-- The experimental "deferred actions" feature, enabled by passing the `-allow-deferral` option to `terraform plan`, permits `count` and `for_each` arguments in `module`, `resource`, and `data` blocks to have unknown values and allows providers to react more flexibly to unknown values.
-- `terraform test cleanup`: The experimental `test cleanup` command. In experimental builds of Terraform, a manifest file and state files for each failed cleanup operation during test operations are saved within the `.terraform` local directory. The `test cleanup` command will attempt to clean up the local state files left behind automatically, without requiring manual intervention.
-- `terraform test`: `backend` blocks and `skip_cleanup` attributes:
-  - Test authors can now specify `backend` blocks within `run` blocks in Terraform Test files. Run blocks with `backend` blocks will load state from the specified backend instead of starting from empty state on every execution. This allows test authors to keep long-running test infrastructure alive between test operations, saving time during regular test operations.
-  - Test authors can now specify `skip_cleanup` attributes within test files and within run blocks. The `skip_cleanup` attribute tells `terraform test` not to clean up state files produced by run blocks with this attribute set to true. The state files for affected run blocks will be written to disk within the `.terraform` directory, where they can then be cleaned up manually using the also experimental `terraform test cleanup` command.
 
 ## Previous Releases
 

.changes/v1.14/BUG FIXES-20260108-114527.yaml

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-1.14.4-dev
+1.14.4