Release 2.44.0

[chainlink-release-pusher]

Release 2.44.0

Source Ref: develop
Release Tag: v2.44.0-beta.0
Phase: beta

This PR tracks the release process for version 2.44.0.

📌 Merge After Finalization

This PR should be merged after the final release is published to bring release changes back to trunk.

Checklist

• Version bumped via changeset
• Release branch created
• Pre-release tag (beta) created and pushed
• Changeset created for next release
• Testing completed
• Final release tag created

[github-actions]

✅ No conflicts with other open PRs targeting develop

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[chainlink-release-pusher]

🚀 New pre-release created (rc): v2.44.0-rc.0

[cl-sonarqube-production]

Quality Gate passed

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Release bookkeeping for Chainlink Core v2.44.0 by bumping the root package version, updating the consolidated changelog, and removing consumed changeset entries after versioning.

Changes:

• Bump package.json version from 2.43.0 → 2.44.0.
• Add 2.44.0 release notes to CHANGELOG.md.
• Remove the .changeset/*.md files that have been incorporated into the changelog/version bump.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 7 out of 7 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
package.json	Updates the project version to 2.44.0.
CHANGELOG.md	Adds the 2.44.0 changelog section (minor + patch entries).
.changeset/remove-binary-url-resolver.md	Deleted after being applied to the release changelog.
.changeset/minor-bump-1776191418.md	Deleted after being applied to the release changelog.
.changeset/gold-kites-bake.md	Deleted after being applied to the release changelog.
.changeset/cw-fetcher-and-system-tests.md	Deleted after being applied to the release changelog.
.changeset/confidential-workflow-execution.md	Deleted after being applied to the release changelog.

[HashWrangler]

Verification fix for the unverified github-actions[bot] bump commits on release/2.44.0 is in #22195 (same tree, SSH-signed replay; merge that into release/2.44.0 first so this PR’s head picks up GitHub-verified commits where policy requires it).

[chainlink-release-pusher]

🎉 Final release published: v2.44.0

This PR is now ready for review and can be merged to develop.