diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 20c1629..c12b3f4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ lwt-2.0.0+rc1.tar.gz
 /lwt-4.2.1.tar.gz
 /lwt-4.3.0.tar.gz
 /lwt-4.3.1.tar.gz
+/lwt-4.4.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/ocaml-lwt.spec b/ocaml-lwt.spec
index e79aaf0..53b9ce2 100644
--- a/ocaml-lwt.spec
+++ b/ocaml-lwt.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:           ocaml-lwt
-Version:        4.3.1
+Version:        4.4.0
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        OCaml lightweight thread library
 
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ BuildRequires:  dune
 BuildRequires:  ocaml-dune-devel
 BuildRequires:  ocaml-cppo
 BuildRequires:  ocaml-result-devel
+BuildRequires:  ocaml-seq-devel
 
 # lwt.unix dependencies
 BuildRequires:  ocaml-mmap-devel
@@ -118,14 +119,7 @@ dune install --profile=release --destdir %{buildroot}
 rm -rf %{buildroot}/%{_prefix}/doc
 
 %check
-# As of lwt 4.3.1, a test fails on ppc64le. The same test
-# seems to succeed on 4.4.0. Thus, I've temporarily disabled
-# the tests on ppc64le just to get things working in F31 again--
-# this can go away once the package in Rawhide gets updated
-# to 4.4.0.
-%ifnarch ppc64le
 dune runtest --profile=release
-%endif
 
 %files
 %doc CHANGES README.md
@@ -188,6 +182,9 @@ dune runtest --profile=release
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Oct 15 2019 Ben Rosser <rosser.bjr@gmail.com> - 4.4.0-1
+- Update to latest upstream release, 4.4.0 (rhbz#1755859).
+
 * Tue Oct 01 2019 Ben Rosser <rosser.bjr@gmail.com> - 4.3.1-1
 - Update to latest upstream release; reenable tests.
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 6ac2ab8..109a892 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (lwt-4.3.1.tar.gz) = ff5b2f69513bca07073a5562912ccb94f64c13799c083e9afdaa5e9a41a3b269e9dc4283a98cf4e45fff1275a500bfc1c5f407d155481de62dc07bc5987a9d89
+SHA512 (lwt-4.4.0.tar.gz) = a416c26a2725c24f8f55a5048394181ad8f6cc01b8c20fe756896dd1c68ad6a4f32e28aaec52cea44097916d703fa1c82b349b3c6a62856d2dd15c28042b042f