diff --git a/textproc/py-pyahocorasick/Makefile b/textproc/py-pyahocorasick/Makefile
index e3037790be00..dd22bc4f67c0 100644
--- a/textproc/py-pyahocorasick/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-pyahocorasick/Makefile
@@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
 PORTNAME=	pyahocorasick
-DISTVERSION=	1.4.1
+DISTVERSION=	1.4.4
 CATEGORIES=	textproc python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	kai@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python and C implementation of the Aho-Corasick algorithm
 WWW=		https://github.com/WojciechMula/pyahocorasick
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 USES=		python:3.6+
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils concurrent autoplist
 
 PORTDOCS=	README.rst
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS
 
 post-install:
 	${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}/ahocorasick*.so
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	(cd ${WRKSRC} && ${INSTALL_DATA} ${PORTDOCS} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR})
 
 do-test:
 	@cd ${WRKSRC} && ${PYTHON_CMD} unittests.py
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py-pyahocorasick/distinfo b/textproc/py-pyahocorasick/distinfo
index 1f6e5e58fc27..c190665b7772 100644
--- a/textproc/py-pyahocorasick/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/py-pyahocorasick/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1612207280
-SHA256 (pyahocorasick-1.4.1.tar.gz) = fe076da3b0b20dbb619b0fb6478af8766b06679c0e359a2bfb189d3f07ddeecf
-SIZE (pyahocorasick-1.4.1.tar.gz) = 321039
+TIMESTAMP = 1671450684
+SHA256 (pyahocorasick-1.4.4.tar.gz) = 32545cad135660ceef556f1d987aee3206e00096735405d7a8de84eb0a15bb27
+SIZE (pyahocorasick-1.4.4.tar.gz) = 95127