Updated version number for new release.

docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md

@@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ page](Configuration.md) It has three methods:
 - `get_unquoted(varname, default_value)` returns the value of `varname`
   but without surrounding double quotes (`"`). If the value has not been
   set returns `default_value` if it is defined and errors out if not.
-  Available since 0.43.0
+  Available since 0.44.0
 
 - `has(varname)`, returns `true` if the specified variable is set
 

docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.44.0.md

@@ -1,16 +1,143 @@
 ---
 title: Release 0.44
-short-description: Release notes for 0.44 (preliminary)
+short-description: Release notes for 0.44
 ...
 
 # New features
 
-This page is a placeholder for the eventual release notes.
+## Added warning function
 
-Notable new features should come with release note updates. This is
-done by creating a file snippet called `snippets/featurename.md` and
-whose contents should look like this:
+This function prints its argument to the console prefixed by "WARNING:" in
+yellow color. A simple example:
 
-    # Feature name
+warning('foo is deprecated, please use bar instead')
 
-    A short description explaining the new feature and how it should be used.
+
+## Adds support for additional Qt5-Module keyword `moc_extra_arguments`
+
+When `moc`-ing sources, the `moc` tool does not know about any
+preprocessor macros. The generated code might not match the input
+files when the linking with the moc input sources happens.
+
+This amendment allows to specify a a list of additional arguments
+passed to the `moc` tool. They are called `moc_extra_arguments`.
+
+
+## Prefix-dependent defaults for sysconfdir, localstatedir and sharedstatedir
+
+These options now default in a way consistent with
+[FHS](http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs.shtml) and common usage.
+
+If prefix is `/usr`, default sysconfdir to `/etc`, localstatedir to `/var` and
+sharedstatedir to `/var/lib`.
+
+If prefix is `/usr/local` (the default), default localstatedir to `/var/local`
+and sharedstatedir to `/var/local/lib`.
+
+
+## An array type for user options
+
+Previously to have an option that took more than one value a string
+value would have to be created and split, but validating this was
+difficult. A new array type has been added to the meson_options.txt
+for this case. It works like a 'combo', but allows more than one
+option to be passed. The values can optionally be validated against a
+list of valid values. When used on the command line (with -D), values
+are passed as a comma separated list.
+
+```meson
+option('array_opt', type : 'array', choices : ['one', 'two', 'three'], value : ['one'])
+```
+
+These can be overwritten on the command line,
+
+```meson
+meson _build -Darray_opt=two,three
+```
+
+## LLVM dependency supports both dynamic and static linking
+
+The LLVM dependency has been improved to consistently use dynamic linking.
+Previously recent version (>= 3.9) would link dynamically while older versions
+would link statically.
+
+Now LLVM also accepts the `static` keyword to enable statically linking to LLVM
+modules instead of dynamically linking.
+
+
+## Added `if_found` to subdir
+
+Added a new keyword argument to the `subdir` command. It is given a
+list of dependency objects and the function will only recurse in the
+subdirectory if they are all found. Typical usage goes like this.
+
+    d1 = dependency('foo') # This is found
+    d2 = dependency('bar') # This is not found
+
+    subdir('somedir', if_found : [d1, d2])
+
+In this case the subdirectory would not be entered since `d2` could
+not be found.
+
+## `get_unquoted()` method for the `configuration` data object
+
+New convenience method that allows reusing a variable value
+defined quoted. Useful in C for config.h strings for example.
+
+
+## Added disabler object
+
+A disabler object is a new kind of object that has very specific
+semantics. If it is used as part of any other operation such as an
+argument to a function call, logical operations etc, it will cause the
+operation to not be evaluated. Instead the return value of said
+operation will also be the disabler object.
+
+For example if you have an setup like this:
+
+```meson
+dep = dependency('foo')
+lib = shared_library('mylib', 'mylib.c',
+  dependencies : dep)
+exe = executable('mytest', 'mytest.c',
+  link_with : lib)
+test('mytest', exe)
+```
+
+If you replace the dependency with a disabler object like this:
+
+```meson
+dep = disabler()
+lib = shared_library('mylib', 'mylib.c',
+  dependencies : dep)
+exe = executable('mytest', 'mytest.c',
+  link_with : lib)
+test('mytest', exe)
+```
+
+Then the shared library, executable and unit test are not
+created. This is a handy mechanism to cut down on the number of `if`
+statements.
+
+
+## Config-Tool based dependencies gained a method to get arbitrary options
+
+A number of dependencies (CUPS, LLVM, pcap, WxWidgets, GnuStep) use a config
+tool instead of pkg-config. As of this version they now have a
+`get_configtool_variable` method, which is analogous to the
+`get_pkgconfig_variable` for pkg config.
+
+```meson
+dep_llvm = dependency('LLVM')
+llvm_inc_dir = dep_llvm.get_configtool_variable('includedir')
+```
+
+## Embedded Python in Windows MSI packages
+
+Meson now ships an internal version of Python in the MSI installer packages.
+This means that it can run Python scripts that are part of your build
+transparently. That is, if you do the following:
+
+    myprog = find_program('myscript.py')
+
+Then Meson will run the script with its internal Python version if necessary.

docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.45.0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+---
+title: Release 0.45
+short-description: Release notes for 0.45 (preliminary)
+...
+
+# New features
+
+This page is a placeholder for the eventual release notes.
+
+Notable new features should come with release note updates. This is
+done by creating a file snippet called `snippets/featurename.md` and
+whose contents should look like this:
+
+    ## Feature name
+
+    A short description explaining the new feature and how it should be used.

docs/sitemap.txt

@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ index.md
 		Shipping-prebuilt-binaries-as-wraps.md
 		fallback-wraptool.md
 	Release-notes.md
+		Release-notes-for-0.45.0.md
 		Release-notes-for-0.44.0.md
 		Release-notes-for-0.43.0.md
 		Release-notes-for-0.42.0.md

man/meson.1

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "October 2017" "meson 0.43.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "December 2017" "meson 0.44.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 meson - a high productivity build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION

man/mesonconf.1

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESONCONF "1" "October 2017" "mesonconf 0.43.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESONCONF "1" "December 2017" "mesonconf 0.44.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 mesonconf - a tool to configure Meson builds
 .SH DESCRIPTION

man/mesonintrospect.1

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESONINTROSPECT "1" "October 2017" "mesonintrospect 0.43.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESONINTROSPECT "1" "December 2017" "mesonintrospect 0.44.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 mesonintrospect - a tool to extract information about a Meson build
 .SH DESCRIPTION

man/mesontest.1

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "October 2017" "meson 0.43.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "December 2017" "meson 0.44.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 mesontest - test tool for the Meson build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION

man/wraptool.1

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH WRAPTOOL "1" "October 2017" "meson 0.43.0" "User Commands"
+.TH WRAPTOOL "1" "December 2017" "meson 0.44.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 wraptool - source dependency downloader
 .SH DESCRIPTION

mesonbuild/coredata.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 from .mesonlib import default_libdir, default_libexecdir, default_prefix
 import ast
 
-version = '0.44.0.dev1'
+version = '0.44.0'
 backendlist = ['ninja', 'vs', 'vs2010', 'vs2015', 'vs2017', 'xcode']
 
 class UserOption: