diff --git a/acc_update-argcomplete.patch b/acc_update-argcomplete.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 529bc56..0000000
--- a/acc_update-argcomplete.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru azure-cli-core-2.40.0.orig/setup.py azure-cli-core-2.40.0/setup.py
---- azure-cli-core-2.40.0.orig/setup.py	2022-09-02 07:40:04.000000000 +0200
-+++ azure-cli-core-2.40.0/setup.py	2022-09-16 11:35:17.346870084 +0200
-@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
- ]
- 
- DEPENDENCIES = [
--    'argcomplete~=1.8',
-+    'argcomplete>=1.8.0',
-     'azure-cli-telemetry==1.0.8.*',
-     'azure-mgmt-core>=1.2.0,<2',
-     'cryptography',
diff --git a/azure-cli-core-2.43.0.tar.gz b/azure-cli-core-2.43.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 83b6f7c..0000000
--- a/azure-cli-core-2.43.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:3ec1546afc0651bf51667d2173e1f4cb91350a054cd677bf8964d4a47b04e88f
-size 205475
diff --git a/azure-cli-core-2.44.0.tar.gz b/azure-cli-core-2.44.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..297e211
--- /dev/null
+++ b/azure-cli-core-2.44.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:a4ab48304fcaee7d29b384b580c2d27d83f51c45d47fd4d7ec452916ab1c2f2f
+size 208018
diff --git a/azure-cli-core.changes b/azure-cli-core.changes
index 780d6c7..9a5eee6 100644
--- a/azure-cli-core.changes
+++ b/azure-cli-core.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jan 10 09:38:44 UTC 2023 - John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com>
+
+- New upstream release
+  + Version 2.44.0
+  + For detailed information about changes see the
+    HISTORY.rst file provided with this package
+- Drop patches for issues fixed upstream
+  + acc_update-argcomplete.patch
+- Relax version dependency for python-packaging
+  in BuildRequires (bsc#1206869)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Dec  6 08:26:50 UTC 2022 - John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/azure-cli-core.spec b/azure-cli-core.spec
index 17bae0e..dbdb92e 100644
--- a/azure-cli-core.spec
+++ b/azure-cli-core.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package azure-cli-core
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2022 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2023 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 
 Name:           azure-cli-core
-Version:        2.43.0
+Version:        2.44.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Microsoft Azure CLI Core Module
 License:        MIT
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ URL:            https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/a/azure-cli-core/azure-cli-core-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        LICENSE.txt
 Patch0:         acc_disable-update-check.patch
-Patch1:         acc_update-argcomplete.patch
 BuildRequires:  azure-cli-nspkg
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
@@ -52,7 +51,7 @@ Requires:       python3-msal-extensions < 2.0.0
 Requires:       python3-msal-extensions >= 1.0.0
 Requires:       python3-msrestazure < 0.7.0
 Requires:       python3-msrestazure >= 0.6.4
-Requires:       python3-packaging < 22.0
+Requires:       python3-packaging < 24.0
 Requires:       python3-packaging >= 20.9
 Requires:       python3-paramiko < 3.0.0
 Requires:       python3-paramiko >= 2.0.8
@@ -77,7 +76,6 @@ Microsoft Azure CLI Core Module
 %prep
 %setup -q -n azure-cli-core-%{version}
 %patch0 -p1
-%patch1 -p1
 
 %build
 install -m 644 %{SOURCE1} %{_builddir}/azure-cli-core-%{version}