drupal 7.44

Maintenance and security release of the Drupal 7 series.

This release fixes security vulnerabilities. Sites are urged to upgrade immediately after reading the notes below and the security announcement:

• Drupal Core - Moderately Critical - Multiple Vulnerabilities - SA-CORE-2016-002

No other fixes are included.

No changes have been made to the .htaccess, web.config, robots.txt or default settings.php files in this release, so upgrading custom versions of those files is not necessary.

Known issues:

There are no known regressions in this release.