v1.44.0

What's Changed

• W18: validate smoke emitter edits before committing state by @milos-agathon in #226
• Separate point-cloud hierarchy from file formats by @milos-agathon in #227
• W18: share viewer command transport by @milos-agathon in #228
• W18: own offline accumulation as a session by @milos-agathon in #229
• fix(viewer): discard whitespace kept over between replies by @milos-agathon in #230
• W18: centralize live Python/native capability lookup by @milos-agathon in #231
• fix(viewer): discard whitespace kept over between replies by @milos-agathon in #232
• Centralize texture layout and GPU size accounting by @milos-agathon in #234
• Share F3DZ page validation before CPU and GPU decoding by @milos-agathon in #236
• W18: share GPU texture readback ownership and cleanup by @milos-agathon in #235
• W18: make typed map compiled-plan ownership explicit by @milos-agathon in #237
• W18: share CHRONOS frozen-frame preparation by @milos-agathon in #239
• W18: assemble scene picks before selecting by @milos-agathon in #240
• feat: own GPU timing submission and slot lifetime by @milos-agathon in #241
• feat: share asynchronous terrain tile-request scheduling by @milos-agathon in #242
• Remove KTX2 and compressed-texture stubs that do no work by @adeerkhan in #238
• fix(ktx2): map vkFormat codes to the correct wgpu formats by @milos-agathon in #244
• feat: resize viewer render targets as a coherent set by @milos-agathon in #243
• release: Forge3D 1.44.0 terrain improvements by @milos-agathon in #233
• MAP-DETAIL-NORMAL: wire DEM detail-normal textures by @milos-agathon in #224
• Skip unused CPU coarse AO during terrain upload by @milos-agathon in #225
• fix: package DEM detail-normal generation for 1.44.0 by @milos-agathon in #247
• Fix Windows refusal and GPU completion waits for 1.44.0 by @milos-agathon in #248
• Complete GPU frame readback repair for 1.44.0 by @milos-agathon in #249

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