Prepare for 2.4.4

[infirit]

Ive added #2514 and #2513 to the 2.4.4 milestone. Anything else you want to include?

I'll update this PR with the new commits and update the changelog.

[cschramm]

I now have some doubts on #2514 🙈

#2481 #2486 and #2499 are all candidates to me as well. Small and useful, although mostly not fixes. Not enough for a 2.5 I'd say, though. I'm a bit undecided. 😄

[infirit]

I now have some doubts on #2514 🙈

No problem to revert it, I'll drop it from this PR.

#2481 #2486 and #2499 are all candidates to me as well. Small and useful, although mostly not fixes.

Sounds good to me, I'll cherry-pick them.

Not enough for a 2.5 I'd say, though. I'm a bit undecided. 😄

I would be OK with doing more releases for small changes. I have larger reworks sitting unfinished (I replaced os.path in TransferService with pathlib.Path, but there is a bug which i have been failing to fix for very many months now because dealing with file transfers is not fun 😅 ) and those would be prime candidates for a new major release.

[sonarcloud]

Quality Gate passed

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[infirit]

Dropped the switch change and added the 3 PR you mentioned.