Bump esptool from 2.8 to 4.4

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Bumps esptool from 2.8 to 4.4.

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Version 4.4

New Features

• flasher_stub: Increased read/write speeds over USB-JTAG/Serial or USB-OTG modes, making some operations nearly twice as fast.
• Added detection for guru meditation errors induced by the flasher stub or ROM bootloader.
• Added a readable error message for serial-related failures, giving more information about possible HW issues.
• espsecure.py: Improved AES-XTS encryption speed. (espressif/esptool#783)

Bug Fixes

• ESP32-S3 v0.0: Fixed chip revision detection.
• bitstring: Added a workaround for breaking changes of bitstring==4
• get_default_connected_device: Fixed to close unused serial ports.
• flash_freq: Fall back to a chip-specific default flash frequency when no flash_freq arg is specified.
• ESP32-C6: Fixed chip type detection and SPI flash communication.

Thanks to @​Emill and others for contributing to this release!

Version 4.3

New Features

• image_info: Added image type autodetection, specifying --chip is no longer needed
• image_info: Added the ability to display application info if a valid app image is detected
• write_flash: Added the ability to recover from serial errors when flashing, effectively making data transfers more robust (espressif/esptool#182)
• write_flash: Added checks to prevent flashing if an incompatible chip type or chip revision is used, --force can be used to override this restriction
• Added more memory density definitions to cover known flash chips (espressif/esptool#769)
• Added parsing of stub flasher error definitions in esptool messages
• Added support for Major.Minor chip revision versioning scheme in the format vX.Y

Bug Fixes

• Listed BLE as an ESP32-C3 feature (espressif/esptool#770)
• Included MANIFEST in sdist to fix RPM packaging (espressif/esptool#767)
• espefuse.py: Fixed burning of ENABLE_SECURITY_DOWNLOAD eFuse

Internal features

Experimental support for ESP32-C6 has been added (--no-stub only). Burning eFuses is not recommended. This SoC is not generally available, so it is not fully supported in this release. Official support will be added in a later release.

Thanks to @​johnboiles, @​Jason2866, @​Robsteranium, and others for contributing to this release!

Version 4.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed faulty hard_reset() with RTS pin for ESP32-S2/S3 in slower environments
• Fixed stub JSON files not being included in executables built by pyInstaller

Thanks to @​hathach and others for contributing to this release!

Version 4.2

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Commits

• b1fce75 Update version to v4.4
• 57f9ba9 esp32c6: update esp32c6 magic value and spi reg offset
• 09e41df fix: Add workaround for breaking changes of bitstring==4
• cf7e64f esp32s3: fixed bug chip v0.0 detected as vX.0
• c56e6fe ci: Update GH actions to latest versions
• 943b997 docs(tests): Add test suite description and instructions
• 2b42855 ci(test_espefuse): Migrate tests from unittest to pytest
• 1d18196 ci(test_esptool): Migrate tests from unittest to pytest
• 40e6afd ci(host_tests): Migrate from unittest to pytest
• 52278a9 feat(flasher_stub): Increase CPU frequency and write/read speeds over native ...
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