diff --git a/devel/R-cran-pkgbuild/Makefile b/devel/R-cran-pkgbuild/Makefile
index 76a2287ce1ea..79e47ef86143 100644
--- a/devel/R-cran-pkgbuild/Makefile
+++ b/devel/R-cran-pkgbuild/Makefile
@@ -1,25 +1,31 @@
 PORTNAME=	pkgbuild
-DISTVERSION=	1.4.2
+DISTVERSION=	1.4.4
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	uzsolt@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Find Tools Needed to Build R Packages
 WWW=		https://github.com/r-lib/pkgbuild
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-RUN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-R6>0:devel/R-cran-R6 \
-		R-cran-callr>=3.2.0:devel/R-cran-callr \
+RUN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-callr>=3.2.0:devel/R-cran-callr \
 		R-cran-cli>=3.4.0:devel/R-cran-cli \
 		R-cran-crayon>0:devel/R-cran-crayon \
 		R-cran-desc>0:devel/R-cran-desc \
 		R-cran-prettyunits>0:devel/R-cran-prettyunits \
-		R-cran-rprojroot>0:devel/R-cran-rprojroot \
-		R-cran-processx>0:sysutils/R-cran-processx
-TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-covr>0:devel/R-cran-covr
+		R-cran-processx>0:sysutils/R-cran-processx \
+		R-cran-R6>0:devel/R-cran-R6 \
+		R-cran-rprojroot>0:devel/R-cran-rprojroot
+TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-covr>0:devel/R-cran-covr \
+		R-cran-cpp11>0:devel/R-cran-cpp11 \
+		R-cran-knitr>0:print/R-cran-knitr \
+		R-cran-mockery>0:devel/R-cran-mockery \
+		R-cran-Rcpp>0:devel/R-cran-Rcpp \
+		R-cran-rmarkdown>0:textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown \
+		R-cran-testthat>0:devel/R-cran-testthat
 
 USES=		cran:auto-plist
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/R-cran-pkgbuild/distinfo b/devel/R-cran-pkgbuild/distinfo
index a6ac086a37df..c7bdf0bbec38 100644
--- a/devel/R-cran-pkgbuild/distinfo
+++ b/devel/R-cran-pkgbuild/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1688438976
-SHA256 (pkgbuild_1.4.2.tar.gz) = 2334a245d75420b2adf9f217a6bc4a5f7faaa4244a6aac2b774b26f199fc82c5
-SIZE (pkgbuild_1.4.2.tar.gz) = 46953
+TIMESTAMP = 1726477570
+SHA256 (pkgbuild_1.4.4.tar.gz) = 5972843cd43654715cdbdd28f50af013fa3d1c213146654992b2b5f39ed0e2a8
+SIZE (pkgbuild_1.4.4.tar.gz) = 48794