grpc/grpc-java v1.44.2 on GitHub

Bug Fixes

netty: Fixed incompatibility with Netty 4.1.75.Final that caused COMPRESSION_ERROR (#9004)
xds: Fix LBs blindly propagating control plane errors (#9012). This change forces the use of UNAVAILABLE for any xDS communication failures, which otherwise could greatly confuse an application. This is essentially a continuation of the fix in 1.45.0 for XdsNameResolver, but for other similar cases
xds: Fix XdsNameResolver blindly propagates control plane errors (#8953). This change forces the use of UNAVAILABLE for any xDS communication failures, which otherwise could greatly confuse an application
xds: fix bugs in ring-hash load balancer picking subchannel behavior per gRFC. The bug may cause connection not failing over from TRANSIENT_FAILURE status. (#9085)

xds: change ring_hash LB aggregation rule to better handle transient_failure channel status (#9084)