diff --git a/devel/py-magic/Makefile b/devel/py-magic/Makefile
index 374a6bb9cdb5..300cbb5534a2 100644
--- a/devel/py-magic/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-magic/Makefile
@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
 PORTNAME=	magic
-PORTVERSION=	5.43
+PORTVERSION=	5.44
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	https://astron.com/pub/file/ \
 		ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/ \
 		ftp://ftp.gw.com/mirrors/pub/unix/file/ \
 		ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/tools/file/ \
 		https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/distfiles.macports.org/file/
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	file-${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	lwhsu@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python module for determining file type
 WWW=		https://www.darwinsys.com/file/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
 
 # both install module as magic.py
 CONFLICTS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}python-magic
 
 WRKSRC=	${WRKDIR}/file-${PORTVERSION}/python
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-magic/distinfo b/devel/py-magic/distinfo
index d057522fb7b4..a1915a07fab7 100644
--- a/devel/py-magic/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-magic/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1665974571
-SHA256 (file-5.43.tar.gz) = 8c8015e91ae0e8d0321d94c78239892ef9dbc70c4ade0008c0e95894abfb1991
-SIZE (file-5.43.tar.gz) = 1162786
+TIMESTAMP = 1672302246
+SHA256 (file-5.44.tar.gz) = 3751c7fba8dbc831cb8d7cc8aff21035459b8ce5155ef8b0880a27d028475f3b
+SIZE (file-5.44.tar.gz) = 1186437