release(v1.4.4): prepare release

This is the official v1.4.4 release.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <[email protected]>

Author: smira

CHANGELOG.md

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+## [Omni 1.4.4](https://github.com/siderolabs/omni/releases/tag/v1.4.4) (2025-12-23)
+
+Welcome to the v1.4.4 release of Omni!
+
+
+
+Please try out the release binaries and report any issues at
+https://github.com/siderolabs/omni/issues.
+
+### Urgent Upgrade Notes **(No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)**
+
+This release consolidates **Discovery service state**, **Audit logs**, **Machine logs**, and **Secondary resources** into a single SQLite storage backend.
+
+**1. New Required Flag**
+You **must** set the new `--sqlite-storage-path` (or `.storage.sqlite.path`) flag. There is no default value, and Omni will not start without it.
+It **must** be a path to the SQLite file (will be created by Omni), **not** a directory, e.g., `--sqlite-storage-path=/path/to/omni-sqlite.db`.
+
+**2. Audit Logging Changes**
+A new flag `--audit-log-enabled` (or `.logs.audit.enabled`) has been introduced to explicitly enable or disable audit logging.
+* **Default:** `true`.
+* **Change:** Previously, audit logging was implicitly enabled only when the path was set. Now, it is enabled by default.
+
+**3. Automatic Migration**
+Omni will automatically migrate your existing data (BoltDB, file-based logs) to the new SQLite database on the first startup. To ensure this happens correctly, simply add the new SQLite flag and **leave your existing storage flags in place** for the first run.
+
+Once the migration is complete, you are free to remove the deprecated flags listed below. If they remain, they will be ignored and eventually dropped in future versions.
+
+**4. Deprecated Flags (Kept for Migration)**
+The following flags (and config keys) are deprecated and kept solely to facilitate the automatic migration:
+* `--audit-log-dir` (`.logs.audit.path`)
+* `--secondary-storage-path` (`.storage.secondary.path`)
+* `--machine-log-storage-path` (`.logs.machine.storage.path`)
+* `--machine-log-storage-enabled` (`.logs.machine.storage.enabled`)
+* `--embedded-discovery-service-snapshot-path` (`.services.embeddedDiscoveryService.snapshotsPath`)
+* `--machine-log-buffer-capacity` (`.logs.machine.bufferInitialCapacity`)
+* `--machine-log-buffer-max-capacity` (`.logs.machine.bufferMaxCapacity`)
+* `--machine-log-buffer-safe-gap` (`.logs.machine.bufferSafetyGap`)
+* `--machine-log-num-compressed-chunks` (`.logs.machine.storage.numCompressedChunks`)
+
+**5. Removed Flags**
+The following flags have been removed and are no longer supported:
+* `--machine-log-storage-flush-period` (`.logs.machine.storage.flushPeriod`)
+* `--machine-log-storage-flush-jitter` (`.logs.machine.storage.flushJitter`)
+
+
+### Contributors
+
+* Andrey Smirnov
+
+### Changes
+<details><summary>1 commit</summary>
+<p>
+
+* [`2bbd9d79`](https://github.com/siderolabs/omni/commit/2bbd9d791fb4a2a6766ef2dc77e2916891723678) fix: run more aggressive compaction for sqlite/metrics
+</p>
+</details>
+
+### Dependency Changes
+
+This release has no dependency changes
+
+Previous release can be found at [v1.4.3](https://github.com/siderolabs/omni/releases/tag/v1.4.3)
+
 ## [Omni 1.4.3](https://github.com/siderolabs/omni/releases/tag/v1.4.3) (2025-12-22)
 
 Welcome to the v1.4.3 release of Omni!

hack/release.toml

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 match_deps = "^github.com/((talos-systems|siderolabs)/[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)$"
 
 pre_release = false
-previous = "v1.4.2"
+previous = "v1.4.3"
 
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