Underscores not rendered with some sizes of dejavu sans mono

After updating to pango 1.44.1 i3bar renders fonts worse.

Before/after:

Two obvious errors are: underscore is not rendered in "OrionTelekom_A448-5G" and weird space between 2 Ls in "FULL".

Built cairo from git (1.17.2.r17.g52a7c79fd-1) and rebuilt i3-wm, no changes. Only reverting to 1.43.0 fixes the issues.