chore(main): release storage 1.44.0

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1.44.0 (2024-10-03)

Features

• storage/dataflux: Add dataflux interface (#10748) (cb7b0a1)
• storage/dataflux: Add range_splitter #10748 (#10899) (d49da26)
• storage/dataflux: Add worksteal algorithm to fast-listing (#10913) (015b52c)
• storage/internal: Add managed folder to testIamPermissions method (2f0aec8)
• storage/transfermanager: Add option to StripPrefix on directory download (#10894) (607534c)
• storage/transfermanager: Add SkipIfExists option (#10893) (7daa1bd)
• storage/transfermanager: Checksum full object downloads (#10569) (c366c90)
• storage: Add direct google access side-effect imports by default (#10757) (9ad8324)
• storage: Add full object checksum to reader.Attrs (#10538) (245d2ea)
• storage: Add support for Go 1.23 iterators (84461c0)
• storage: Add update time in bucketAttrs (#10710) (5f06ae1), refs #9361
• storage: GA gRPC client (#10859) (c7a55a2)
• storage: Introduce gRPC client-side metrics (#10639) (437bcb1)
• storage: Support IncludeFoldersAsPrefixes for gRPC (#10767) (65bcc59)

Bug Fixes

• storage/transfermanager: Correct Attrs.StartOffset for sharded downloads (#10512) (01a5cbb)
• storage: Add retryalways policy to encryption test (#10644) (59cfd12), refs #10567
• storage: Add unknown host to retriable errors (#10619) (4ec0452)
• storage: Bump dependencies (2ddeb15)
• storage: Bump google.golang.org/grpc@v1.64.1 (8ecc4e9)
• storage: Check for grpc NotFound error in HMAC test (#10645) (3c8e88a)
• storage: Disable grpc metrics using emulator (#10870) (35ad73d)
• storage: Retry gRPC DEADLINE_EXCEEDED errors (#10635) (0018415)
• storage: Update dependencies (257c40b)
• storage: Update google.golang.org/api to v0.191.0 (5b32644)

Performance Improvements

• storage: GRPC zerocopy codec (#10888) (aeba28f)

Documentation

• storage/internal: Clarify possible objectAccessControl roles (2f0aec8)
• storage/internal: Update dual-region bucket link (2f0aec8)

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