Announcing the release of go-libp2p v0.44.0

Highlights

Observed Address Manager has been moved out of identify to its own package, github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/p2p/host/obsaddrs
⚠️ Identify Service doesn't support the DisableObservedAddrManager Option. The top level libp2p option DisableIdentifyAddressDiscovery works as it used to.

fix: clean up associations for closed listeners. by @Prabhat1308 in #3306
swarm: move AddCertHashes to swarm by @sukunrt in #3330
refactor(quicreuse): use errors.Join in Close method by @crStiv in #3363
network: rename NAT Types by @sukunrt in #3331
feat(metrics): add Reset and TrimIdle methods to reporter interface by @cpeliciari in #3343
feat(simlibp2p): Simulated libp2p Networks by @MarcoPolo in #3262
Support Go 1.24 & 1.25 by @MarcoPolo in #3366
basichost: move observed address manager to basichost by @sukunrt in #3332
ci: uci/update-go by @web3-bot in #3371
feat: Migrate to log/slog by @MarcoPolo in #3364
AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions by @MarcoPolo in #3372
docs: remove broken link by @MarcoPolo in #3375
enhancement: include non public relay addresses to be advertised too #3361 #3365 by @shoriwe in #3379
fix: self-healing NAT mappings with request deduplication by @lidel in #3367
feat(network): Add ConnAs by @MarcoPolo in #3338
refactor: replace context.WithCancel with t.Context by @cargoedit in #3383
chore: add help comment by @MarcoPolo in #3385
README: remove Drand from notable users section by @marten-seemann in #3388
docs: Update contribute section by @MarcoPolo in #3387
fix: assignment to entry in nil map by @dennis-tra in #3395
Refactor pre core module by @MarcoPolo in #3396
basichost: move EvtLocalAddrsChanged to addrs_manager by @sukunrt in #3355
ci: move to github actions runner by @MarcoPolo in #3398
basichost: fix lint error by @sukunrt in #3400

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