diff --git a/devel/libuv/Makefile b/devel/libuv/Makefile
index 99a0ba455e6f..fff82fc9bde2 100644
--- a/devel/libuv/Makefile
+++ b/devel/libuv/Makefile
@@ -1,28 +1,28 @@
 PORTNAME=	libuv
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	1.42.0
+DISTVERSION=	1.44.2
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	https://dist.libuv.org/dist/v${DISTVERSION}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	bhughes@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O
 
 LICENSE=	NODE
 LICENSE_NAME=	NODE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 LICENSE_PERMS=	dist-mirror dist-sell pkg-mirror pkg-sell auto-accept
 
 USES=		autoreconf cpe libtool pathfix pkgconfig
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 
 # Will not run as root, reference:
 # https://github.com/libuv/libuv/commit/af45b6ba2f2c506ae18dd24481e24db17b8269e7
 TEST_TARGET=	check
 
 pre-configure:
 	${ECHO_CMD} "m4_define([UV_EXTRA_AUTOMAKE_FLAGS], [ serial-tests])" \
 		> ${WRKSRC}/m4/libuv-extra-automake-flags.m4
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/libuv/distinfo b/devel/libuv/distinfo
index 7571f89acf73..52d1d5f0245e 100644
--- a/devel/libuv/distinfo
+++ b/devel/libuv/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1627245302
-SHA256 (libuv-v1.42.0.tar.gz) = 43129625155a8aed796ebe90b8d4c990a73985ec717de2b2d5d3a23cfe4deb72
-SIZE (libuv-v1.42.0.tar.gz) = 1284534
+TIMESTAMP = 1660113271
+SHA256 (libuv-v1.44.2.tar.gz) = ccfcdc968c55673c6526d8270a9c8655a806ea92468afcbcabc2b16040f03cb4
+SIZE (libuv-v1.44.2.tar.gz) = 1301690