build: release 2.4.4 preparations #1493

Job	Run time
Compile Benchmarks	5m 11s
Checks	4m 57s
Docs	5m 56s
Compile and test (2.13)	7m 27s
Compile and test (3.3)	8m 20s
Gradle tests	9m 50s
Maven tests	8m 54s
sbt scripted tests (gen-scala-server, 2.13)	11m 5s
sbt scripted tests (gen-java, 2.13)	7m 17s
sbt scripted tests (scala-2_13, 2.13)	6m 0s
sbt scripted tests (scala3, 3.3)	6m 9s
	1h 21m 6s

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