diff --git a/databases/mongodb44/Makefile b/databases/mongodb44/Makefile
--- a/databases/mongodb44/Makefile
+++ b/databases/mongodb44/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 PORTNAME=	mongodb
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	r
-DISTVERSION=	4.4.16
+DISTVERSION=	4.4.18
 CATEGORIES=	databases net
 MASTER_SITES=	https://fastdl.mongodb.org/src/ \
 		http://fastdl.mongodb.org/src/
@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cheetah3>0:devel/py-cheetah3@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}yaml>=3.11:devel/py-yaml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}psutil>0:sysutils/py-psutil@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${LOCALBASE}/bin/ar:devel/binutils
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}psutil>0:sysutils/py-psutil@${PY_FLAVOR}
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libpcre.so:devel/pcre \
 		libcurl.so:ftp/curl \
 		libsnappy.so:archivers/snappy
@@ -49,7 +48,7 @@
 		-j ${MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER} \
 		--disable-warnings-as-errors \
 		VERBOSE=on \
-		AR=${PREFIX}/bin/ar
+		AR=llvm-ar
 
 USERS=		mongodb
 GROUPS=		mongodb
diff --git a/databases/mongodb44/distinfo b/databases/mongodb44/distinfo
--- a/databases/mongodb44/distinfo
+++ b/databases/mongodb44/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1661414758
-SHA256 (mongodb-src-r4.4.16.tar.gz) = dfa2503904dabbeeac7980336458da9478115ea0ddc659d2e0ef2ab2c68d29fe
-SIZE (mongodb-src-r4.4.16.tar.gz) = 50831692
+TIMESTAMP = 1669202055
+SHA256 (mongodb-src-r4.4.18.tar.gz) = 03723468a175ea77c67ede4b941f1c27e45d0b086c697a8201d12581a09d1713
+SIZE (mongodb-src-r4.4.18.tar.gz) = 50851643