Release notes for version 0.44.0

Release date: 12 Oct 2026

• bump version of VM components to v1.154.0
• bump victoria-metrics-common dependency to 0.4.*. Resource names are unchanged.
• add missing serviceAccount.automountToken value (default true), so automountServiceAccountToken is no longer rendered empty.
• rename the config volume from config to config-out to match the VictoriaMetrics operator. Pods are restarted once on upgrade.