diff --git a/package/liblinear/liblinear.hash b/package/liblinear/liblinear.hash
index a714b8bc4e..27aa4e3e87 100644
--- a/package/liblinear/liblinear.hash
+++ b/package/liblinear/liblinear.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  02bad43d745e2796f39a08ac9d117770e71939ef06b1ee7afc6ab7909e304807  liblinear-2.43.tar.gz
-sha256  c5c91211a0edaa4c77e352f6b27a8f9c6768afe27d48176d6094905c534eacb3  COPYRIGHT
+sha256  45572b99d4eeffc3e8ad7b72c27370be867edf3523c396d8b278a2c873bfbb5c  liblinear-2.44.tar.gz
+sha256  d49b7898fd9ea7c29f0478e8c409ee7c0f621533d5eca7b7912e80391dc564e3  COPYRIGHT
diff --git a/package/liblinear/liblinear.mk b/package/liblinear/liblinear.mk
index 1ad734c756..c100ccc6c5 100644
--- a/package/liblinear/liblinear.mk
+++ b/package/liblinear/liblinear.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBLINEAR_VERSION = 2.43
+LIBLINEAR_VERSION = 2.44
 LIBLINEAR_SITE = http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/liblinear
 LIBLINEAR_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 LIBLINEAR_LICENSE_FILES = COPYRIGHT
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ LIBLINEAR_CFLAGS = $(TARGET_CFLAGS)
 ifeq ($(BR2_SHARED_LIBS)$(BR2_SHARED_STATIC_LIBS),y)
 # $1: destination directory
 define LIBLINEAR_INSTALL_SHARED
-	$(INSTALL) -m 0644 -D $(@D)/liblinear.so.4 $(1)/usr/lib/liblinear.so.4
-	ln -sf liblinear.so.4 $(1)/usr/lib/liblinear.so
+	$(INSTALL) -m 0644 -D $(@D)/liblinear.so.5 $(1)/usr/lib/liblinear.so.5
+	ln -sf liblinear.so.5 $(1)/usr/lib/liblinear.so
 endef
 LIBLINEAR_CFLAGS += -fPIC
 endif