chore: release 0.14.4, begin 0.14.5.dev0 development (#3850)

* chore: bump version to 0.14.4

* chore: begin 0.14.5.dev0 development

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CHANGELOG.md

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 <!-- insert new changelog below this comment -->
 
+## [0.14.4] - 2026-07-29
+
+### Changed
+
+- fix(bundler): degrade non-UTF-8 config reads into BundlerError (#3784)
+- fix(workflows): escape the step-progress line so step ids render (and `/` stops failing the run) (#3783)
+- Update Agent Parity Governance preset to v0.4.1 (#3830)
+- fix(integrations): reject empty --commands-dir in generic raw_options (#3714)
+- fix(presets): guard non-list/non-mapping provides.templates in PresetManifest (#3712)
+- fix(auth): resolve az via shutil.which so azure-cli token works on Windows (#3709)
+- fix(workflows): reject falsy non-mapping workflow-catalogs.yml top level (#3707)
+- fix(integrations): render hyphenated /speckit-<name> for Droid (always-slash agent) (#3688)
+- [preset] Update A11Y Governance preset to v0.4.2 (#3828)
+- [preset] Update Parallel Autonomous Run Governance to v0.2.4 (#3825)
+- fix: correct Optional type annotation for _resolved_dir parameter (#3801)
+- fix: add timeout to prompt step subprocess execution (#3768)
+- fix: handle tags containing / in GitHub release asset URL resolution (#3767)
+- fix(presets): escape catalog metadata in discovery output (#3773)
+- Update Autonomous Run Governance preset to v0.3.3 (#3823)
+- fix: use bounded read for integration catalog HTTP responses (#3763)
+- docs: add Simplified Chinese translation of README (#3740)
+- Update Intake Sequencing Governance preset to v0.2.2 (#3809)
+- fix(workflows): reject non-string/non-boolean 'condition' in if/while/do-while steps (#3706)
+- fix(bundle): escape catalog metadata in discovery output (#3774)
+- fix(workflows,extensions): tolerate non-list catalog tags in search/info display (#3770)
+- fix: correct nullable resolved directory annotation (#3771)
+- fix(presets): tolerate non-string and non-list catalog fields in preset search/info (#3769)
+- fix(integrations): escape catalog metadata in discovery output (#3772)
+- Update Verify Review Ship extension to v0.4.2 (#3792)
+- fix(integrations): preserve native skill invocation prefixes (#3663)
+- Update Intake Review Governance preset to v0.2.0 (#3796)
+- fix(constitution): stop propagating guidance into templates (#3737) (#3790)
+- chore: release 0.14.3, begin 0.14.4.dev0 development (#3795)
+
 ## [0.14.3] - 2026-07-28
 
 ### Changed

pyproject.toml

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 [project]
 name = "specify-cli"
-version = "0.14.4.dev0"
+version = "0.14.5.dev0"
 description = "Specify CLI, part of GitHub Spec Kit. A tool to bootstrap your projects for Spec-Driven Development (SDD)."
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"