diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6d2c938..c5ebafd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 /pyftdi-0.30.0.tar.gz
 /pyftdi-0.30.3.tar.gz
 /pyftdi-0.42.2.tar.gz
+/pyftdi-0.44.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-pyftdi.spec b/python-pyftdi.spec
index af5c134..9bcb529 100644
--- a/python-pyftdi.spec
+++ b/python-pyftdi.spec
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 %global pypi_name pyftdi
 
 Name:           python-%{pypi_name}
-Version:        0.42.2
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        0.44.2
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Python support for FTDI devices
 
 License:        BSD
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ PyFtdi aims at providing a user-space driver for modern FTDI devices.
 %{python3_sitelib}/%{pypi_name}*.egg-info
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Feb 29 2020 Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch> - 0.44.2-1
+- Update to latest upstream release 0.44.2
+
 * Thu Jan 30 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.42.2-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 7df6f6f..8720d25 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (pyftdi-0.42.2.tar.gz) = 7a558f88ebca1a5b502363f873bb3e34f2fb306e82274c35bd3190f6ba7976d70d89b3e4b5e09074a583d656399cf6b6394d41841b959e95de775de21c642207
+SHA512 (pyftdi-0.44.2.tar.gz) = 14c9bb79a03d79bb3909b2cce5ec8769a9d40fc3bec8ac78b64e0db0735493a34f42937610c5b8bab653cf787d691ce7ea5d1c10d8cf213fc7947ab923fa3f49