v0.44.0 2025-01-07

What's Changed

• fix some deprecation / unused import warnings by @davidhewitt in #56
• support function unnesting for json_as_text inner calls by @davidhewitt in #57
• fix case of dictionary column as path for JSON lookup by @davidhewitt in #58
• ci: fix clippy warning on 1.83 by @davidhewitt in #61
• don't require any datafusion features by @davidhewitt in #60
• bump jiter to 0.8 by @davidhewitt in #59
• bump datafusion to 44, version to 0.44 by @davidhewitt in #62

Full Changelog: v0.43.0...v0.44.0