Release 4.4.0

docs/release_notes/4.4.0.rst

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+- Update year and update license test to 2020.
+- Bump OSVVM to latest version.
+- Add possibility to configure random stalls for AXI Stream. :vunit_issue:`557`
+- JSON-for-VHDL: use base16 encodings :vunit_issue:`595`
+- First release requiring Python 3.6 or higher. Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 are not supported anymore. :vunit_issue:`596` :vunit_issue:`601`
+- Start adding type annotations to the Python sources; add mypy (a static type checker) to the list of linters. :vunit_issue:`601` :vunit_issue:`626`
+- Move co-simulation (VHPIDIRECT) sources (implementation and example) to `VUnit/cosim <https://github.com/VUnit/cosim>`_ :vunit_issue:`606`
+- ghdl interface: with ``ghdl_e``, save runtime args to JSON file :vunit_issue:`606`
+- Add missing mode assertions to ``-93`` sources of ``integer_vector_ptr`` and ``string_ptr``. :vunit_issue:`607`
+- Add method ``get_simulator_name()`` to public Python API. :vunit_issue:`610`
+- Start replacing ``join``, ``dirname``, etc. with ``pathlib`` :vunit_issue:`612` :vunit_issue:`626` :vunit_issue:`632`
+- Fix parsing adjacent hyphens in a literal. :vunit_issue:`616`
+- Fix ``ghdl.flags`` error in documentation. :vunit_issue:`620`
+- Rename compile option 'ghdl.flags' to 'ghdl.a_flags' :vunit_issue:`624`
+- Move ``project.Library`` to separate file
+- Remove Travis CI and AppVeyor, use GitHub Actions only
+- Remove Sphinx extension ABlog; handle posts as regular pages in subdir ``blog``
+- Update GHDL to v0.37 in Windows CI jobs.
+- Fix regression in GHDL (``prefix of array attribute must be an object name``) :vunit_issue:`631` :vunit_issue:`635`
+- Add code coverage support for GHDL :vunit_issue:`627`

vunit/about.py

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     return VERSION
 
 
-VERSION = "4.3.1rc0"
+VERSION = "4.4.0"