chore(main): release spanner 1.44.0 (#7311)

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Co-authored-by: rahul2393 <irahul@google.com>

Author: release-please[bot]

.release-please-manifest-individual.json

@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@
   "profiler": "0.3.1",
   "pubsub": "1.28.0",
   "pubsublite": "1.6.0",
-  "spanner": "1.43.0",
+  "spanner": "1.44.0",
   "storage": "1.29.0"
 }

spanner/CHANGES.md

@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Changes
 
+## [1.44.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/spanner/v1.43.0...spanner/v1.44.0) (2023-02-01)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **spanner/spansql:** Add support for ALTER INDEX statement ([#7287](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/7287)) ([fbe1bd4](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/fbe1bd4d0806302a48ff4a5822867757893a5f2d))
+* **spanner/spansql:** Add support for managing the optimizer statistics package ([#7283](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/7283)) ([e528221](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/e52822139e2821a11873c2d6af85a5fea07700e8))
+* **spanner:** Add support for Optimistic Concurrency Control ([#7332](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/7332)) ([48ba16f](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/48ba16f3a09893a3527a22838ad1e9ff829da15b))
+
 ## [1.43.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/spanner/v1.42.0...spanner/v1.43.0) (2023-01-19)
 
 

spanner/internal/version.go

@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
 package internal
 
 // Version is the current tagged release of the library.
-const Version = "1.43.0"
+const Version = "1.44.0"