Release 44.0.2

[alexandernst]

Hi! Since Pyo3 got bumped (which enables support for PyPy 3.11), can we get a new minor/patch release? 🙏

[alex]

@reaperhulk any opinion here? Should be an easy backport.

[reaperhulk]

Normally I'd say we wait until 45 but I agree it is easy to do. It would be nice if PyPy wouldn't push the pain of not having a stable ABI onto every package that tries to support them though.

I guess we do it, although I don't think we can cherry-pick the commits for this from main because we've made a lot of adjacent changes. Probably easier just to make them again against 44.0.x.

[alexandernst]

If it will help speed up the process of releasing the new version, I can create a PR

[reaperhulk]

That would be very helpful! We need three things as PRs to the 44.0.x branch:

• pyo3 update
• wheel builder/CI additions
• changelog

These can be a single PR if you want, I'm just listing them separately since 2 of them are commits on main right now.

[alexandernst]

All right, I'm on it

[alexandernst]

Done! 🙏 #12536

[alexandernst]

Thank you for the release!! 🙏