Flutter 3.44.4

Flutter 3.44.4 has been released — the latest patch release in the 3.44 series brings stability fixes, performance improvements, and small but meaningful quality-of-life updates for Flutter developers.

What's Changed in 3.44.4

This is a maintenance release focused on squashing bugs and tightening up the framework ahead of the next feature cycle. The team addressed several regressions reported in 3.44.0 and improved Impeller renderer stability on Android.

• Impeller stability — Fixed a shader compilation crash affecting certain GPU configurations on Android
• Performance — Reduced jank in scrolling-heavy layouts by optimizing the rendering pipeline
• Platform views — Resolved a flickering issue when embedding native Android views
• Web — Fixed a text rendering misalignment in Safari when using variable fonts
• Tooling — DevTools now correctly shows widget rebuild counts in profile mode

Regressions Fixed

Two notable regressions from 3.44.0 were resolved in this patch. The first caused a layout overflow error in nested ListView configurations. The second prevented hot-reload from working correctly when modifying stateful widget constructors.

Upgrade Now

Run flutter upgrade in your project directory to pull in 3.44.4. The upgrade is drop-in safe for most projects — no breaking changes, no migration steps required.