chore(main): release 1.44.0

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1.44.0 (2024-01-23)

Features

• Add isShutdown in HttpTransport (#1901) (be00ce1)
• Setup 1.43.x lts branch (#1869) (13edd13)

Bug Fixes

• Native image configs for google-http-java-client (#1893) (1acedf7)
• SerialVersionUID fix for Serializable Classes (#1883) (f390020)

Dependencies

• Newer grpc-context to override old one (#1916) (f23e9b1)
• Testing exlcusing commons-logging (#1905) (8e3f4d5)
• Update dependency com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations to v2.23.0 (#1887) (ce5dbfc)
• Update project.appengine.version to v2.0.24 (#1889) (0091413)

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