diff --git a/package/ell/ell.hash b/package/ell/ell.hash
index 316d3fb81d..84016c0ce0 100644
--- a/package/ell/ell.hash
+++ b/package/ell/ell.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # From https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/ell/sha256sums.asc
-sha256  b6c75895ad64bf78f5b5c464de871048d02f9403be518084e0d64b58f508c9fc  ell-0.43.tar.xz
+sha256  41a6f8fa4d285b52cb7a5a87bda3e7370ecaac02d94aaa7ec1a23f0480b8bc3f  ell-0.44.tar.xz
 
 # License files
 sha256  ec60b993835e2c6b79e6d9226345f4e614e686eb57dc13b6420c15a33a8996e5  COPYING
diff --git a/package/ell/ell.mk b/package/ell/ell.mk
index 261dc1a6db..47137e2530 100644
--- a/package/ell/ell.mk
+++ b/package/ell/ell.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ELL_VERSION = 0.43
+ELL_VERSION = 0.44
 ELL_SOURCE = ell-$(ELL_VERSION).tar.xz
 ELL_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/libs/ell
 ELL_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+