diff --git a/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.hash b/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.hash
index a884063f4f..14b94947d4 100644
--- a/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.hash
+++ b/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 # Locally calculated from download (no sig, hash)
-sha256	97aeed65894feb2add896b4adfa4cf343966c8a61c7d206795ed0507640ee7b9	sg3_utils-1.42.tar.xz
+sha256	ca94ac106510742cd8ff5ead4a7e5c89d410653291401daf4632d2bef2a35b05	sg3_utils-1.44.tar.xz
+
+# Hash for license files
+sha256	d516b8b337a77e3d4c65dffe708ca7fb25b1cb4ec77ec362cf11ed659b9250bc	COPYING
+sha256	31f6d59679e0fb21c9358f22484e6e3c53e20ef08c0950fd38a4a867cb55edc9	BSD_LICENSE
diff --git a/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.mk b/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.mk
index 88827f33b4..0c17b30cde 100644
--- a/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.mk
+++ b/package/sg3_utils/sg3_utils.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SG3_UTILS_VERSION = 1.42
+SG3_UTILS_VERSION = 1.44
 SG3_UTILS_SOURCE = sg3_utils-$(SG3_UTILS_VERSION).tar.xz
 SG3_UTILS_SITE = http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p
 SG3_UTILS_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause (library)