[gnome-applets] bump version to 3.44.0, update NEWS

[Alberts Muktupāvels <muktupavels src gnome org>]

commit 30385d54ad491801686add2c2a5e90454e92562b
Author: Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>
Date:   Sat Mar 19 10:12:04 2022 +0200

    bump version to 3.44.0, update NEWS

 NEWS         | 4 ++++
 configure.ac | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index eca2344b2..2d7862c4d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Version 3.44.0
+==============
+- No changes.
+
 Version 3.43.1
 ==============
 - Port to GWeather 4. (gnome-panel#38)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 20f12823e..4821e5bad 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ dnl Define version info
 dnl **************************************************************************
 
 m4_define([ga_major_version], [3])
-m4_define([ga_minor_version], [43])
-m4_define([ga_micro_version], [1])
+m4_define([ga_minor_version], [44])
+m4_define([ga_micro_version], [0])
 m4_define([ga_version], [ga_major_version.ga_minor_version.ga_micro_version])
 
 dnl **************************************************************************