This release follows v0.44.0 and consists of 11 changes, contributed by 4 people, leading to 16 files changed, 411 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.44.1.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v0.44.1`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
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- [PR #6219][kubevirt-bot] Add phases to the vm snapshot api, specifically a failure phase

Contributors
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4 people contributed to this release:

6	Shelly Kagan <skagan@redhat.com>
3	Zvi Cahana <zvic@il.ibm.com>

Additional Resources
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- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
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