From bc495f9092d27e8a140e3b842f99348cb4fb62c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xuyang Tao <taoxuy@google.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 08:59:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] update version to 2.44.0 (#810)

---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 5b9cd9afd..3e197472e 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.43.0
+2.44.0