diff --git a/IO-Socket-SSL-2.042-use-system-default-SSL-version.patch b/IO-Socket-SSL-2.044-use-system-default-SSL-version.patch
similarity index 95%
rename from IO-Socket-SSL-2.042-use-system-default-SSL-version.patch
rename to IO-Socket-SSL-2.044-use-system-default-SSL-version.patch
index 406b4df..90f98c0 100644
--- a/IO-Socket-SSL-2.042-use-system-default-SSL-version.patch
+++ b/IO-Socket-SSL-2.044-use-system-default-SSL-version.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 --- lib/IO/Socket/SSL.pm
 +++ lib/IO/Socket/SSL.pm
-@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ my $algo2digest = do {
+@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ my $algo2digest = do {
  # global defaults
  my %DEFAULT_SSL_ARGS = (
      SSL_check_crl => 0,
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
      SSL_verify_callback => undef,
      SSL_verifycn_scheme => undef,  # fallback cn verification
      SSL_verifycn_publicsuffix => undef,  # fallback default list verification
-@@ -2219,7 +2219,7 @@ sub new {
+@@ -2227,7 +2227,7 @@ sub new {
  
      my $ssl_op = $DEFAULT_SSL_OP;
  
diff --git a/IO-Socket-SSL-2.042-use-system-default-cipher-list.patch b/IO-Socket-SSL-2.044-use-system-default-cipher-list.patch
similarity index 97%
rename from IO-Socket-SSL-2.042-use-system-default-cipher-list.patch
rename to IO-Socket-SSL-2.044-use-system-default-cipher-list.patch
index 982ec02..8843f16 100644
--- a/IO-Socket-SSL-2.042-use-system-default-cipher-list.patch
+++ b/IO-Socket-SSL-2.044-use-system-default-cipher-list.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 --- lib/IO/Socket/SSL.pm
 +++ lib/IO/Socket/SSL.pm
-@@ -105,10 +105,10 @@ my %DEFAULT_SSL_ARGS = (
+@@ -107,10 +107,10 @@ my %DEFAULT_SSL_ARGS = (
      SSL_npn_protocols => undef,    # meaning depends whether on server or client side
      SSL_alpn_protocols => undef,   # list of protocols we'll accept/send, for example ['http/1.1','spdy/3.1']
  
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  );
  
  my %DEFAULT_SSL_CLIENT_ARGS = (
-@@ -118,63 +118,6 @@ my %DEFAULT_SSL_CLIENT_ARGS = (
+@@ -120,63 +120,6 @@ my %DEFAULT_SSL_CLIENT_ARGS = (
      SSL_ca_file => undef,
      SSL_ca_path => undef,
  
diff --git a/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.spec b/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.spec
index bbfb25d..0996a2e 100644
--- a/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.spec
+++ b/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.spec
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 Name:		perl-IO-Socket-SSL
-Version:	2.043
+Version:	2.044
 Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	Perl library for transparent SSL
 Group:		Development/Libraries
 License:	GPL+ or Artistic
 URL:		http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Socket-SSL/
 Source0:	http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SU/SULLR/IO-Socket-SSL-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch0:		IO-Socket-SSL-2.042-use-system-default-cipher-list.patch
-Patch1:		IO-Socket-SSL-2.042-use-system-default-SSL-version.patch
+Patch0:		IO-Socket-SSL-2.044-use-system-default-cipher-list.patch
+Patch1:		IO-Socket-SSL-2.044-use-system-default-SSL-version.patch
 BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(id -nu)
 BuildArch:	noarch
 # Module Build
@@ -116,6 +116,14 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %{_mandir}/man3/IO::Socket::SSL::Utils.3*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jan 26 2017 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 2.044-1
+- Update to 2.044
+  - Protect various 'eval'-based capability detections at startup with a
+    localized __DIE__ handler; this way, dynamically requiring IO::Socket::SSL
+    as done by various third party software should cause less problems even if
+    there is a global __DIE__ handler that does not properly deal with 'eval'
+- Update patches as needed
+
 * Fri Jan  6 2017 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 2.043-1
 - Update to 2.043
   - Enable session ticket callback with Net::SSLeay ≥ 1.80
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 6389dd0..c833f8d 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (IO-Socket-SSL-2.043.tar.gz) = 91a49211c8aea107bdcfd886b276e3329f3e62fccce94c1700cd881d2282236b1f5714263dd4a9a3192c9f0bac0b73e11a0e19d18949855252994ed400462886
+SHA512 (IO-Socket-SSL-2.044.tar.gz) = 2c92494f795a6dbad8636636e69131689512d6a4c5da68ee19f2fc807b9e7a368b62936a772c3b9aa0d3a1c6bbb7dcf118bb501a30ba91830edeb768b1ce556e