I don't have specific recommendation on this.

The best course of action would be to find a new maintainer that would
update the packages to 4.4.2. The upstream (ISC) does very infrequent
releases. We had 4.4.2 coming out in Jan 2020. We don't know when the
next one (4.4.3) will come out, but we're no longer actively developing
it. We're fixing serious bugs reported by customers (and addressing
security issues if found), so the future releases are driven by that.

My point here is that this isn't that much work to do. Perhaps existing
maintainers could be convinced to do the package updates?

Also, the alternative - ISC Kea - is much superior in many regards. It's
modern, can (but doesn't have to) use MySQL, Postgres and other
databases, has much better performance, is extensible with hooks, much
cleaner configuration using JSON, ability to alter almost every aspect
of its configuration during runtime, the dev version already support
multi-threading etc. This is the ultimate solution to that problem:
migrate to Kea and stop using isc-dhcp altogether.

Finally, ISC provides packages for Kea for many systems, including
Ubuntu. We can work with package maintainers if there are specific
patches that are needed. We don't and we don't be able to do that for
isc-dhcp.

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