chore(v4.15.x): release 4.15.44

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4.15.44 (2026-05-18)

Bug Fixes

• force gap jump when stalled at the end of a buffer (#10086) (fa9c2fc)
• Offline: Only request the license on download when usePersistentLicense is true (#10074) (9694276)

Performance Improvements

• player: avoid full configuration deep-clone in time update callback (#10098) (c272f9a)
• transmuxer: Avoid repeatedly creating empty Uint8Arrays (#10100) (47874d8)

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Incremental code coverage: 100.00%

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🤖 Created releases:

• v4.15.44

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