Release v1.44.0

[0xaravindh]

What type of PR is this?

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/kind breaking
/kind bug
/kind cleanup
/kind documentation
/kind feature
/kind hotfix

/kind release

What this PR does / Why we need it:

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Work on #4012

Special notes for your reviewer:

[gongmax]

Do we have any breaking change in this release?

[0xaravindh]

No, there are no breaking changes in this release. If I missed anything, please let me know!

[agones-bot]

Build Succeeded 🥳

Build Id: 166230d2-6ba0-404a-883b-b6ba6d64c7ef

The following development artifacts have been built, and will exist for the next 30 days:

• image: us-docker.pkg.dev/agones-images/ci/agones-controller:1.44.0-dev-c033be2
• image: us-docker.pkg.dev/agones-images/ci/agones-extensions:1.44.0-dev-c033be2
• image: us-docker.pkg.dev/agones-images/ci/agones-sdk:1.44.0-dev-c033be2-linux
• image: us-docker.pkg.dev/agones-images/ci/agones-ping:1.44.0-dev-c033be2
• image: us-docker.pkg.dev/agones-images/ci/agones-allocator:1.44.0-dev-c033be2
• Linux C++ SDK (build): agonessdk-1.44.0-dev-c033be2-linux-arch_64.tar.gz
• SDK Server: agonessdk-server-1.44.0-dev-c033be2.zip

A preview of the website (the last 30 builds are retained):

• https://c033be2-dot-preview-dot-agones-images.appspot.com/

To install this version:

git fetch https://github.com/googleforgames/agones.git pull/4013/head:pr_4013 && git checkout pr_4013
helm install agones ./install/helm/agones --namespace agones-system --set agones.image.registry=us-docker.pkg.dev/agones-images/ci --set agones.image.tag=1.44.0-dev-c033be2

[agones-bot]

Build Succeeded 🥳

Build Id: 7550f8b4-b01b-4bcd-bc66-b33971961f44

The following development artifacts have been built, and will exist for the next 30 days:

• image: us-docker.pkg.dev/agones-images/ci/agones-controller:1.44.0-dev-e44055d
• image: us-docker.pkg.dev/agones-images/ci/agones-extensions:1.44.0-dev-e44055d
• image: us-docker.pkg.dev/agones-images/ci/agones-sdk:1.44.0-dev-e44055d-linux
• image: us-docker.pkg.dev/agones-images/ci/agones-ping:1.44.0-dev-e44055d
• image: us-docker.pkg.dev/agones-images/ci/agones-allocator:1.44.0-dev-e44055d
• Linux C++ SDK (build): agonessdk-1.44.0-dev-e44055d-linux-arch_64.tar.gz
• SDK Server: agonessdk-server-1.44.0-dev-e44055d.zip

A preview of the website (the last 30 builds are retained):

• https://e44055d-dot-preview-dot-agones-images.appspot.com/

To install this version:

git fetch https://github.com/googleforgames/agones.git pull/4013/head:pr_4013 && git checkout pr_4013
helm install agones ./install/helm/agones --namespace agones-system --set agones.image.registry=us-docker.pkg.dev/agones-images/ci --set agones.image.tag=1.44.0-dev-e44055d