Skia Update: New Branch M144

[Heather Miller]

Hi Skia Community! 

Skia has a new branch, M144. We will commit limited cherry picks of high priority issues to this branch for the next ~six weeks.**

**Next branch, due to the holiday production freeze, will be Monday, January 12, 2026.

Branch name: chrome/m144

Branched at fd5ad9dbfac6d647eabd8140fe83df6e7d06b541

(Includes changes through ~3 PM ET, Monday 12/1/25)

A list of public API changes is available in the RELEASE_NOTES.md file.

Enjoy!