[Eduardo Villalpando Mello (edvilme)]

Summary

Prepare the 1.44.0 stable release using the merged release-PR automation.

• Change only root package.json's top-level version: 1.43.0 -> 1.45.0.
• Keep main on the next odd development minor, preserving the existing suffix-free version format.
• After approval and merge, the existing release workflow derives stable 1.44.0 and creates release/1.44.0 from the merged source. Its push can trigger Azure stable publishing; normal release approvals still apply.
• No api/package.json, lockfiles, dependencies, changelogs, workflows, tags, or publishing configuration are changed. No release branch has been created manually. Auto-merge is not enabled.

Validation

• Prettier and whitespace checks passed; the diff is one insertion and one deletion in root package.json only.
• The exact release/version Python scripts pinned by the consumer workflows at 4e0c4335bbf6b1a274673e22d9c39cd7efb93ccf validate this candidate locally.
• Isolated stable-manifest serialization passed without changing other JSON values; calculated branch: release/1.44.0.
• PR creator repository write access verified. The exact target release ref was absent at preparation.
• Hosted Release PR / Plan passed on exact head fce6691a5c86ade7922dc56b54a69d1239c6d79f: validated candidate 1.45.0, executed PR-creator authorization for edvilme, and calculated stable 1.44.0 with branch release/1.44.0.

Version-only check policy

Uses the repository's existing skip package*.json label for this top-level version-only bump. No dependency or lockfile change is needed; changing a lockfile would make the release action classify this as an ordinary mixed-file PR.

[Stella Huang (StellaHuang95)]

🔒 Automated review in progress — Stella Huang (@StellaHuang95) is auto-reviewing this PR.

[Stella Huang (StellaHuang95)]

Reviewed commit: fce6691a5c86ade7922dc56b54a69d1239c6d79f

Result: 🔴 could-not-verify

Verification details

Verification: Automated verification is best effort. The PR author remains responsible for testing.

Summary: [unavailable] Container verification could not start and local execution was not authorized for this PR HEAD: Podman CLI is not installed or is not on PATH.

Test runs: none recorded.

[Stella Huang (StellaHuang95)]

Approved via Review Center.