Prepare 4.4 release (#1813)

Signed-off-by: Jussi Kukkonen <jkukkonen@google.com>

Author: jku

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,13 +8,19 @@ All versions prior to 0.9.0 are untracked.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [4.4.0]
+
+### Changed
+
+* `sigstore` no longer limits the upper-bound of `cryptography` in order
+  to be less disruptive to downstream integrators.
+  ([#1811](https://github.com/sigstore/sigstore-python/pull/1811))
+
 ### Fixed
 
 * Fixed generation of invalid CSRs when the identity is not ASCII (for
   example a GitHub Actions `sub` claim containing a non-ASCII environment
-  name). The identity was embedded as an ASCII-only IA5String email
-  attribute, producing malformed DER that Fulcio rejected with HTTP 400.
-  The CSR subject is unused by Fulcio, so it is now omitted entirely
+  name). The CSR subject is unused by Fulcio, so it is now omitted entirely
   ([#1507](https://github.com/sigstore/sigstore-python/issues/1507))
 
 ## [4.3.0]

sigstore/__init__.py

@@ -25,4 +25,4 @@
 * `sigstore.sign`: creation of Sigstore signatures
 """
 
-__version__ = "4.3.0"
+__version__ = "4.4.0"