Our team is planning to roll out an upgrade for R across all our systems. We are currently using an older version and are debating whether to upgrade to R 4.4.0 or the latest 4.4.1.
From a stability, performance, and security perspective, is it more advantageous to go directly to 4.4.1?
Sure, R version numbers are pretty linear, whatever is included in R 4.4.0 is also included in R 4.4.1 and all later versions. (Unless they deliberately change it later of course, but they are not going to "unfix" a bug.)