diff --git a/opencv-4.3.0.tar.gz b/opencv-4.3.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ef9d44..0000000
--- a/opencv-4.3.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-oid sha256:68bc40cbf47fdb8ee73dfaf0d9c6494cd095cf6294d99de445ab64cf853d278a
-size 87941482
diff --git a/opencv-4.4.0.tar.gz b/opencv-4.4.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..291698a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/opencv-4.4.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:bb95acd849e458be7f7024d17968568d1ccd2f0681d47fd60d34ffb4b8c52563
+size 88887103
diff --git a/opencv-includedir.patch b/opencv-includedir.patch
index 2ba9fa2..473a0f4 100644
--- a/opencv-includedir.patch
+++ b/opencv-includedir.patch
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r opencv-4.0.1/cmake/templates/opencv-XXX.pc.in opencv-4.0.1-includedir/cmake/templates/opencv-XXX.pc.in
---- opencv-4.0.1/cmake/templates/opencv-XXX.pc.in	2018-12-22 07:03:30.000000000 +0000
-+++ opencv-4.0.1-includedir/cmake/templates/opencv-XXX.pc.in	2019-02-07 15:08:15.016613349 +0000
-@@ -11,4 +10,4 @@
- Version: @OPENCV_VERSION_PLAIN@
- Libs: @OPENCV_PC_LIBS@
- Libs.private: @OPENCV_PC_LIBS_PRIVATE@
--Cflags: -I${includedir_old} -I${includedir_new}
-+Cflags: -I${includedir_new}
diff --git a/opencv.changes b/opencv.changes
index da22131..11654c7 100644
--- a/opencv.changes
+++ b/opencv.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Sep 13 16:55:46 UTC 2020 - Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- update to 4.4.0:
+  * SIFT (Scale-Invariant Feature Transform) algorithm has been
+  moved to the main repository (patent on SIFT is expired)
+  * DNN module:
+    * State-of-art Yolo v4 Detector: #17148.
+    * onnx: Add support for Resnet_backbone
+    * EfficientDet models
+    * add text recognition sample / demo
+    * FlowNet2 optical flow
+  * Intel Inference Engine backend
+    * added support for OpenVINO 2020.3 LTS / 2020.4 releases
+    * support of NN Builder API is planned for removal in the next release
+  * Many fixes and optimizations in CUDA backend
+  * Obj-C / Swift bindings: #17165
+  * Julia bindings as part of ongoing GSoC project
+  * BIMEF: A Bio-Inspired Multi-Exposure Fusion Framework for Low-light Image Enhancement
+  * Enable Otsu thresholding for CV_16UC1 images
+  * Add Stroke Width Transform algorithm for Text Detection
+  * Planned migration on Apache 2 license for next releases 
+- remove opencv-includedir.patch (obsolete)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug 20 09:02:23 UTC 2020 - Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
 
diff --git a/opencv.spec b/opencv.spec
index 8e4a8b8..d7c2f91 100644
--- a/opencv.spec
+++ b/opencv.spec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 %endif
 
 %define libname lib%{name}
-%define soname 4_3
+%define soname 4_4
 # disabled by default as many fail
 %bcond_with tests
 %bcond_without gapi
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 %bcond_without python3
 %bcond_without openblas
 Name:           opencv
-Version:        4.3.0
+Version:        4.4.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Collection of algorithms for computer vision
 # GPL-2.0 AND Apache-2.0 files are in 3rdparty/ittnotify which is not build
@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ URL:            https://opencv.org/
 Source0:        https://github.com/opencv/opencv/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 # This is the FACE module from the opencv_contrib package. Packaged separately to prevent too much unstable modules
 Source1:        https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/opencv_contrib-%{version}.tar.gz
-# PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE opencv-includedir.patch -- Fix wrong include path in pkgconfig file
-Patch3:         opencv-includedir.patch
 BuildRequires:  cmake
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  libeigen3-devel
@@ -168,7 +166,6 @@ This package contains the documentation and examples for the OpenCV library.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -a 1
-%autopatch -p1
 
 # Only copy over modules we need
 mv opencv_contrib-%{version}/modules/{face,tracking,optflow,plot,shape,superres,videostab,ximgproc} modules/
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diff --git a/opencv_contrib-4.4.0.tar.gz b/opencv_contrib-4.4.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48f2585
--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
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