Merge branch 'release/4.44.0' into master #1092

Job	Run time
Run tests with coverage	2m 56s
Run tests on legacy versions (3.7)	2m 12s
Run tests (3.8)	1m 59s
Run linters (flake8)	1m 50s
Run tests (3.9)	2m 1s
Run linters (pydocstyle)	1m 48s
Run tests with different pydantic versions	3m 40s
Run linters (mypy)	1m 54s
Run tests (3.10)	1m 56s
Run linters (pylint)	1m 50s
Run tests (3.11)	1m 58s
Run tests (3.12)	2m 10s
Run tests (3.13)	2m 26s
	28m 40s

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