Prep branch for future release (#4176)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+## 1.4.4 (July 15, 2024)
+
+SECURITY:
+
+* Upgrade go version to 1.22.5 to address [CVE-2024-24791](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-24791) [[GH-4154](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/issues/4154)]
+* Upgrade go-retryablehttp to v0.7.7 to address [GHSA-v6v8-xj6m-xwqh](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v6v8-xj6m-xwqh) [[GH-4169](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/issues/4169)]
+
+IMPROVEMENTS:
+
+* upgrade go version to v1.22.4. [[GH-4085](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/issues/4085)]
+* api-gateways: Change security settings to make root file system read only and to not allow privilage escalation. [[GH-3959](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/issues/3959)]
+* cni: package `consul-cni` as .deb and .rpm files [[GH-4040](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/issues/4040)]
+* control-plane: Remove anyuid Security Context Constraints (SCC) requirement in OpenShift. [[GH-4152](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/issues/4152)]
+* partition-init: Role no longer includes unnecessary access to Secrets resource. [[GH-4053](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/issues/4053)]
+
+BUG FIXES:
+
+* api-gateway: fix issue where API Gateway specific acl roles/policy were not being cleaned up on deletion of an api-gateway [[GH-4060](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/issues/4060)]
+* cni: fix incorrect release version due to unstable submodule pinning [[GH-4091](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/issues/4091)]
+* connect-inject: add NET_BIND_SERVICE capability when injecting consul-dataplane sidecar [[GH-4152](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/issues/4152)]
+* endpoints-controller: graceful shutdown logic should not run on a new pod with the same name. Fixes a case where statefulset rollouts could get stuck in graceful shutdown when the new pods come up. [[GH-4059](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/issues/4059)]
+
 ## 1.4.2 (May 20, 2024)
 
 SECURITY:

version/version.go

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ var (
 	//
 	// Version must conform to the format expected by
 	// github.com/hashicorp/go-version for tests to work.
-	Version = "1.4.3"
+	Version = "1.4.5"
 
 	// A pre-release marker for the version. If this is "" (empty string)
 	// then it means that it is a final release. Otherwise, this is a pre-release