prepare a patch release 0.44.1 (#3804)
This patch release is to include https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/commit/43c40a9a596fcf37a5b7b0ae5f32832277393587 which reverts a change to forcefully upgrade genproto transitively, which is causing linker failures since `google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc` was separated from `google.golang.org/genproto`
```
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link: package conflict error: google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/longrunning: package imports google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc/status
was compiled with: @@gazelle~0.35.0~go_deps~org_golang_google_genproto//googleapis/rpc/status:status
but was linked with: @@gazelle~0.35.0~go_deps~org_golang_google_genproto_googleapis_rpc//status:status
```2 files changed
