release: 0.44.0

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Automated Release PR

0.44.0 (2026-03-17)

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

Features

• Add GPU viewport presets and GPU encoder defaults (5096099)
• Adds description to OAS spec for docs about delta_x, delta_y (5d60a03)
• Drop headless GPU support and disable pooling (188a32b)
• expose smooth drag mouse movement via public API (1bcd6f5)
• Rename hardware acceleration UI/docs wording to GPU acceleration (d225ff6)

Chores

• internal: minor cleanup (2e50750)
• internal: tweak CI branches (3a66a84)
• internal: use explicit returns (4023de1)
• internal: use explicit returns in more places (503a87c)

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Note

Medium Risk
Touches request/response encoding/decoding internals (apijson, apiquery, apiform, requestconfig) and many generated client methods, which could subtly affect serialization behavior and error handling across the SDK.

Overview
Bumps the SDK to v0.44.0 (manifest, internal.PackageVersion, README pin, changelog) and updates the tracked OpenAPI spec URL/hash.

Updates the Browser/Pool API surface documentation around GPU acceleration and viewport defaults/presets, and exposes new drag behavior controls (smooth, duration_ms) in computer drag actions; also clarifies scroll delta_x/delta_y docs.

Includes broad generated-code cleanup: many service methods now return explicit (res, err) / err, SSE helpers return an erroring stream on missing parameters, request retry logic ignores close errors, and internal tag parsing/encoding logic is simplified (including recognizing api:"metadata").

CI trigger logic is adjusted to run on all branches except specific excluded patterns, while still allowing codegen/stl/**.

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🧪 Testing

To try out this version of the SDK:

Download and unzip: 'https://pkg.stainless.com/s/kernel-go/188a32bf2e2bfb3e0aa33a595b2477557db168ea/source.zip'. Run 'go mod edit -replace github.com/kernel/kernel-go-sdk=/path/to/unzipped_directory'.

Expires at: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:15:26 GMT
Updated at: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:15:26 GMT