diff --git a/nghttp2.spec b/nghttp2.spec
index 05333fc..1652240 100644
--- a/nghttp2.spec
+++ b/nghttp2.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: Experimental HTTP/2 client, server and proxy
 Name: nghttp2
-Version: 1.43.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 1.44.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: MIT
 URL: https://nghttp2.org/
 Source0: https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/nghttp2/releases/download/v%{version}/nghttp2-%{version}.tar.xz
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ export "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jul 19 2021 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> 1.44.0-1
+- update to the latest upstream release
+
 * Tue Mar 30 2021 Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com> - 1.43.0-2
 - Rebuilt for removed libstdc++ symbol (#1937698)
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 2c441d3..f6ce4ce 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (nghttp2-1.43.0.tar.xz) = eac69ba356870a1cba420a06771082897be8dd40a68f4e04223f41f3d22626e4f5b3766d3dbcc496dd212be01f64c3ac280a2ebddd31dd88f7350c20f56e5d39
+SHA512 (nghttp2-1.44.0.tar.xz) = 756b78665ef9fe8765332e7f0b249029d845a6b635c00a27f4c3716a1354f98bcc34df4da74179213497f6bfc2647d3773ecff2b192c63427447e37cf6393f6c