2.44 release branch has been created

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Andrew,

> Apologies for the late request, but can I draw your attention to some aarch64
> patches that we'd like to have backported to the 2.44 branch before the
> release:
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2025-January/139183.html
> 
> The three patches have already been merged to master, as:
> 0fad7627cf8 aarch64: Fix overly lax +frintts dependency
> 99b90c46110 aarch64: Fix fp8 feature dependencies
> 71e59ebefc2 aarch64: Support +sme+nosve permissively

Sorry for the late reply.

I have applied these three commits to the 2.44 branch.

Cheers
   Nick