Starting 1.4.4-dev

Change-Id: Ied5023d7ef7c7d1a053349ba3cc0319734491244
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 9a8e627..1e81f5e 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-1.4.3
+1.4.4-dev