chore: merge 1.44.x hotfix changes #2766

Job	Run time
Lint package	2m 29s
Build and Test (ubuntu-22.04, 3.10)	3m 19s
Build and Test (ubuntu-22.04, 3.9)	3m 22s
Build and Test (macos-13, 3.10)	4m 7s
Build and Test (macos-13, 3.9)	5m 42s
Build and Test (ubuntu-22.04, 3.11)	2m 56s
Build and Test (windows-2022, 3.10)	5m 38s
Build and Test (ubuntu-22.04, 3.12)	2m 49s
Build and Test (macos-13, 3.12)	3m 22s
Build and Test (windows-2022, 3.9)	5m 28s
Build and Test (macos-13, 3.11)	3m 48s
Test GitHub action for `secret scan`	26s
Build and Test (windows-2022, 3.12)	5m 28s
build_os_packages / Build packages (macos-14, aarch64, 5fdc0f6a5b5a90fd3c528e8b1da8e3aac931ea8690126c2fdb4254c84a3ff0...	33s
build_os_packages / Build packages (windows-2022)	43s
build_os_packages / Build packages (ubuntu-22.04, rockylinux/rockylinux:8, e8d7ed8c6f8c6f85cd083d5051cafd8c6c01d09eca...	55s
build_os_packages / Build packages (macos-13, x86_64, 6378dfd22f58bb553ddb02be28304d739cd730c1f95c15c74955c923a1bc3d6...	56s
build_os_packages / build_wheel_sdist	21s
Build and Test (windows-2022, 3.11)	5m 26s
build_os_packages / linux_package_smoke_tests	0s
Push Docker image to Docker Hub and GitHub Packages	-1s
	57m 47s

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