diff --git a/www/smarty/Makefile b/www/smarty/Makefile
index a6e1314e7600..3ad9d51f938d 100644
--- a/www/smarty/Makefile
+++ b/www/smarty/Makefile
@@ -1,29 +1,29 @@
 PORTNAME=	smarty
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-PORTVERSION=	4.3.4
+PORTVERSION=	4.4.1
 CATEGORIES=	www
 PKGNAMESUFFIX=	${PHP_PKGNAMESUFFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	PHP compiling template engine
 WWW=		https://www.smarty.net/
 
 LICENSE=	LGPL3+
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 USES=		cpe php:flavors,web
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 NO_BUILD=	yes
 
 DATADIR=	${PREFIX}/share/smarty${PHP_PKGNAMESUFFIX}
 SUB_FILES=	pkg-message
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	smarty-php
 
 do-install:
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DATADIR}
 	cd ${WRKSRC}/libs && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} . ${STAGEDIR}${DATADIR}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/www/smarty/distinfo b/www/smarty/distinfo
index 5db5a13a85c2..ba71387bd24b 100644
--- a/www/smarty/distinfo
+++ b/www/smarty/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1696432882
-SHA256 (smarty-php-smarty-v4.3.4_GH0.tar.gz) = 4c8d5afdc58aa9fec2a27cd0b3bdac0e48fe6be022415ed7fc8d56b5be97418a
-SIZE (smarty-php-smarty-v4.3.4_GH0.tar.gz) = 361396
+TIMESTAMP = 1709390446
+SHA256 (smarty-php-smarty-v4.4.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 977a0878598594521299f42a4d3e5b52361c5378c379e0f30ee32a1ed160153a
+SIZE (smarty-php-smarty-v4.4.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 362765
diff --git a/www/smarty/pkg-plist b/www/smarty/pkg-plist
index ea021aba3df2..013c0e885bb7 100644
--- a/www/smarty/pkg-plist
+++ b/www/smarty/pkg-plist
@@ -1,209 +1,212 @@
 %%DATADIR%%/Autoloader.php
 %%DATADIR%%/Smarty.class.php
 %%DATADIR%%/bootstrap.php
 %%DATADIR%%/debug.tpl
 %%DATADIR%%/functions.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/block.textformat.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/function.counter.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/function.cycle.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/function.fetch.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/function.html_checkboxes.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/function.html_image.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/function.html_options.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/function.html_radios.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/function.html_select_date.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/function.html_select_time.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/function.html_table.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/function.mailto.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/function.math.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.capitalize.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.count.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.date_format.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.debug_print_var.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.escape.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.explode.php
+%%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.implode.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.mb_wordwrap.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.number_format.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.regex_replace.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.replace.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.spacify.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifier.truncate.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.cat.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.count_characters.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.count_paragraphs.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.count_sentences.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.count_words.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.default.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.escape.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.from_charset.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.indent.php
+%%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.json_encode.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.lower.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.nl2br.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.noprint.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.round.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.str_repeat.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.string_format.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.strip.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.strip_tags.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.strlen.php
+%%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.substr.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.to_charset.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.unescape.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.upper.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/modifiercompiler.wordwrap.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/outputfilter.trimwhitespace.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/shared.escape_special_chars.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/shared.literal_compiler_param.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/shared.make_timestamp.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/shared.mb_str_replace.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/shared.mb_unicode.php
 %%DATADIR%%/plugins/variablefilter.htmlspecialchars.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_cacheresource.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_cacheresource_custom.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_cacheresource_keyvaluestore.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_data.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_block.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_cacheresource_file.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_append.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_assign.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_block.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_block_child.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_block_parent.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_break.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_call.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_capture.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_child.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_config_load.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_continue.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_debug.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_eval.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_extends.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_for.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_foreach.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_function.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_if.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_include.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_insert.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_ldelim.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_make_nocache.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_nocache.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_parent.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_block_plugin.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_foreachsection.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_function_plugin.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_modifier.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_object_block_function.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_object_function.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_print_expression.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_registered_block.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_registered_function.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_special_variable.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_rdelim.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_section.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_setfilter.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_shared_inheritance.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_while.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_compilebase.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_config_file_compiler.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_configfilelexer.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_configfileparser.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_data.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_debug.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_errorhandler.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_extension_handler.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_addautoloadfilters.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_adddefaultmodifiers.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_append.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_appendbyref.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_assignbyref.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_assignglobal.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_clearallassign.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_clearallcache.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_clearassign.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_clearcache.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_clearcompiledtemplate.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_clearconfig.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_compileallconfig.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_compilealltemplates.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_configload.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_createdata.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_getautoloadfilters.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_getconfigvariable.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_getconfigvars.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_getdebugtemplate.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_getdefaultmodifiers.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_getglobal.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_getregisteredobject.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_getstreamvariable.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_gettags.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_gettemplatevars.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_literals.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_loadfilter.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_loadplugin.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_mustcompile.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_registercacheresource.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_registerclass.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_registerdefaultconfighandler.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_registerdefaultpluginhandler.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_registerdefaulttemplatehandler.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_registerfilter.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_registerobject.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_registerplugin.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_registerresource.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_setautoloadfilters.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_setdebugtemplate.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_setdefaultmodifiers.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_unloadfilter.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_unregistercacheresource.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_unregisterfilter.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_unregisterobject.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_method_unregisterplugin.php
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 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_nocache_insert.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_parsetree.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_parsetree_code.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_parsetree_dq.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_parsetree_dqcontent.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_parsetree_tag.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_parsetree_template.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_parsetree_text.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_resource_eval.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_resource_extends.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_resource_file.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_resource_php.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_resource_stream.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_resource_string.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_cachemodify.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_cacheresourcefile.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_capture.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_codeframe.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_filterhandler.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_foreach.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_getincludepath.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_inheritance.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_make_nocache.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_tplfunction.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_updatecache.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_updatescope.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_writefile.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_smartytemplatecompiler.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_template.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatebase.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatelexer.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templateparser.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_testinstall.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_internal_undefined.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_resource.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_resource_custom.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_resource_recompiled.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_resource_uncompiled.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_security.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_template_cached.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_template_compiled.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_template_config.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_template_resource_base.php
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 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_undefined_variable.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smarty_variable.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smartycompilerexception.php
 %%DATADIR%%/sysplugins/smartyexception.php