Bump com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core from 2.20.1 to 2.21.1

Fix external action use hash for security

Update dependencies and plugins

Merge release branch 0.44.4-v0.14.0

[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 0.44.4-v0.14.0

Change deprecated macOS version

Replace vulnerable lz4 library

Minor plugins upgrade (#118)

Update README (#117)

Add support for geospatial types (#116)

Added column index map to speed up initial table creation (#115)

Correct readFromStream, add some documentation (#114)

Update parquet-java version (#113)

Update dependencies and plugins (#112)