# DuckDB v1.4.4 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** DuckDB (https://duckdb.org)
- **Version:** v1.4.4
- **Released:** Jan 26, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/duckdb/updates/v1.4.4/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
DuckDB v1.4.4. Source highlight: This is a bug fix release for various issues discovered after we released 1.4.3. Please excuse the erroneous release earlier.

## New Features
- Bump iceberg, and add wasm platforms!
- Add some defensive programming in `RadixPartitionedHashTable::Combine` and `RadixPartitionedHashTable::Finalize`
- Add QueryContext also to Write(void *buffer, idx_t nr_bytes), so that BytesWritten are updated also there
- Add v1.4.4 to Storage Version
- Don't add a semicolon to final query when splitting statements
- Add ducklake, httpfs and iceberg tests so they are run in CI

## Bug Fixes
- Cast Fix: Correctly handle negative exponent with a number with a decimal in VARCHAR -> INTEGER cast
- [Storage] Fix NULL filter check for constant segments
- Fix ALIAS function in filter pushdown to preserve column aliases(#20008)
- Fix minio nightly tests
- Fix use-after-free in mode aggregate Combine function
- Fix extentension-ci-tools to latest release version in the v1.4-andium branch