8.44.0

What's Changed

Breaking Changes 🚨

• Increased gRPC class modularization and updated exception handling by @rupert-griffin in #1350
• dependencies: bump com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java from 3.25.5 to 4.33.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #1222

Improvements 🛠

• Make gRPC futures thread interruptible by @rupert-griffin in #1368

Security 🔒

• update netty dependency to version 4.2.13.Final by @cfkoehler in #1377

Documentation 📚

• update security policy and operator responsibilities in SECURITY.md by @cfkoehler in #1365

Automation and Testing 🚦

• exclude github-actions[bot] from release notes by @cfkoehler in #1356
• update use of deprecated ChecksumCalculator constructor in testing classes by @sambish5 in #1373
• update use of deprecated Factory.create() in FactoryTest by @sambish5 in #1374
• extraction-test :: add support for strict (regression) mode by @dev-mlb in #1360

Dependencies 📦

• dependencies: bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.21.0 to 2.22.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1362
• dependencies: bump com.google.code.gson:gson from 2.13.2 to 2.14.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1361
• dependencies: bump com.fasterxml.jackson:jackson-bom from 2.21.2 to 2.21.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #1367
• dependencies: bump org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5 from 5.6 to 5.6.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #1357

Other Changes ⚙️

• tech-debt :: updated code to use path.of by @dev-mlb in #1359
• remove use of getStringParameter() in DropOffUtil by @cfkoehler in #1363
• remove use of getStringParameter() in FilePickUpClient & test by @sambish5 in #1370
• code clean-up in AbstractFilter by @sambish5 in #1376
• upgrade deprecated provideArguments() method by @sambish5 in #1364
• code clean-up in DirectoryProviderPlace by @sambish5 in #1369

Full Changelog: 8.43.0...8.44.0