v44.0.0

🚨 BREAKING CHANGES

• Remove deprecated MatrixRTC APIs (#5591). Contributed by @robintown.
• Remove support for "oldest membership" RTC transport selection (#5574). Contributed by @robintown.
• Remove distinction between LiveKit transports and transport configs (#5573). Contributed by @robintown.

✨ Features

• Support migration to new LiveKit transport types and endpoints (#5587). Contributed by @robintown.
• Add capabilities property on RTC member events (#5577). Contributed by @Johennes.
• Update matrix-sdk-crypto-wasm to v18.9.0 (#5569). Contributed by @kaylendog.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Avoid blocking crypto initialization on pending room key lookups (#5555). Contributed by @basnijholt.
• Handle redaction of superseded sticky events (#5583). Contributed by @Johennes.
• Keep back-paginated relations whose parent is in the same batch (#5571). Contributed by @ara4n.
• Retain unexpired rather than expired sticky events (#5580). Contributed by @Johennes.
• Handle late-decrypted sticky events that already failed decrypting (#5584). Contributed by @Johennes.
• Compare sticky events by expiry, tie breaking on the event id (#5582). Contributed by @Johennes.
• Fix occasional bug where polls would not update (#5568). Contributed by @dbkr.
• MatrixRTC: reset network error retries on successful (re-)join (#5517). Contributed by @ara4n.
• Threads: cap concurrent initial-events fetches at 3 (#5519). Contributed by @ara4n.
• Fix cached sync waiting for missing relation parents (#5543). Contributed by @basnijholt.