Version 4.4

New Features

• flasher_stub: Increased read/write speeds over USB-JTAG/Serial or USB-OTG modes, making some operations nearly twice as fast.
• Added detection for guru meditation errors induced by the flasher stub or ROM bootloader.
• Added a readable error message for serial-related failures, giving more information about possible HW issues.
• espsecure.py: Improved AES-XTS encryption speed. (#783)

Bug Fixes

• ESP32-S3 v0.0: Fixed chip revision detection.
• bitstring: Added a workaround for breaking changes of bitstring==4
• get_default_connected_device: Fixed to close unused serial ports.
• flash_freq: Fall back to a chip-specific default flash frequency when no flash_freq arg is specified.
• ESP32-C6: Fixed chip type detection and SPI flash communication.

Thanks to @Emill and others for contributing to this release!