diff --git a/academic/R/R.SlackBuild b/academic/R/R.SlackBuild
index 97b5d3a22b..e8f237c02f 100644
--- a/academic/R/R.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/R/R.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # SlackBuild script for R
 
-# Copyright 2019-2022 Andrew Payne <phalange@komputermatrix.com>
+# Copyright 2019-2024 Andrew Payne <phalange@komputermatrix.com>
 # Copyright 2014-2017 melikamp, Andrew Rowland
 
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=R
-VERSION=${VERSION:-4.4.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-4.4.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/academic/R/R.info b/academic/R/R.info
index 6c12168093..c7d87e5f08 100644
--- a/academic/R/R.info
+++ b/academic/R/R.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="R"
-VERSION="4.4.0"
+VERSION="4.4.1"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.r-project.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.4.0.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="647ef3e012e9cf36a187db64a6082217"
+DOWNLOAD="https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.4.1.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="7e8bce91f0ed90931cf9b73d6ac64aeb"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""