2.440 as Feb 21, 2024 LTS baseline?

Wednesday Jan 10, 2024 is the day that we should select the baseline for the long term support release that will be delivered February 21, 2024. I propose Jenkins 2.440 as the next LTS baseline. It was released Tuesday Jan 9, 2024. It includes user

New plugin - Support for Azure credentials via the Kubernetes Credentials Provider

Hi Jenkins Dev, We need to use Azure to provision build agents and therefore need to store the azure creds (service principal or a managed identity) as a jenkins credential. As we are deploying on Kubernetes we rely on the Kuberneters Credentials Provider