diff --git a/dev-libs/libpcre/Manifest b/dev-libs/libpcre/Manifest
index ce74278..1cf3383 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libpcre/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/libpcre/Manifest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DIST pcre-8.41.tar.bz2 1561874 SHA256 e62c7eac5ae7c0e7286db61ff82912e1c0b7a0c13706616e94a7dd729321b530 SHA512 cc9cdbeb98c010fe4f093a019bebfb91965dae4c6a48f8e49c38ec8df7d9da7f0d32c12fc58f22c51f1c2f010e72b65bcbf8bbf180060e93edf464fa9a7c3551 WHIRLPOOL 24d891c4f6580af20aa07a166038a2bacb52cdb305987f8b91b2fecae65e7b5277d3ef0b26ddbb3a33fd34794e6340e77df6a321e770b3aca4393d1ed144cf64
+DIST pcre-8.44.tar.bz2 1577611 BLAKE2B ef8d5737ca1f4c72f12c8726956ce5d3bad13aa8303b7c3b5d25499e3027ddc2edcdb937d9ad2bdd437a8885f1af8757ba194aa0b2f236b6e6a3a18d2ec8f138 SHA512 f26d850aab5228799e58ac8c2306fb313889332c39e29b118ef1de57677c5c90f970d68d3f475cabc64f8b982a77f04eca990ff1057f3ccf5e19bd137997c4ac
diff --git a/dev-libs/libpcre/files/libpcre-8.41-sljit_mips-label-statement-fix.patch b/dev-libs/libpcre/files/libpcre-8.41-sljit_mips-label-statement-fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0494ccc..0000000
--- a/dev-libs/libpcre/files/libpcre-8.41-sljit_mips-label-statement-fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naurp pcre-8.41.orig/sljit/sljitNativeMIPS_common.c pcre-8.41/sljit/sljitNativeMIPS_common.c
---- pcre-8.41.orig/sljit/sljitNativeMIPS_common.c	2017-05-07 11:32:25.000000000 -0400
-+++ pcre-8.41/sljit/sljitNativeMIPS_common.c	2017-07-29 17:50:24.508909742 -0400
-@@ -503,9 +503,11 @@ SLJIT_API_FUNC_ATTRIBUTE sljit_s32 sljit
- #ifdef SLJIT_IS_FPU_AVAILABLE
- 		return SLJIT_IS_FPU_AVAILABLE;
- #elif defined(__GNUC__)
-+	{
- 		sljit_sw fir;
- 		asm ("cfc1 %0, $0" : "=r"(fir));
- 		return (fir >> 22) & 0x1;
-+	}
- #else
- #error "FIR check is not implemented for this architecture"
- #endif
diff --git a/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.41-r1.ebuild b/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.44.ebuild
similarity index 80%
rename from dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.41-r1.ebuild
rename to dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.44.ebuild
index c829a6e..3f5012c 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.41-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.44.ebuild
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=5
+EAPI=7
 
-inherit eutils multilib libtool flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs multilib-minimal
+inherit multilib libtool flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs multilib-minimal preserve-libs usr-ldscript
 
 DESCRIPTION="Perl-compatible regular expression library"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.pcre.org/"
@@ -29,13 +29,10 @@
 	libedit? ( dev-libs/libedit )
 	readline? ( sys-libs/readline:0= )
 "
-DEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
 	virtual/pkgconfig
 "
-RDEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-"
 
 S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
 
@@ -44,12 +41,11 @@
 )
 
 PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-8.41-sljit_mips-label-statement-fix.patch
 	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-8.41-fix-stack-size-detection.patch
 )
 
 src_prepare() {
-	epatch "${PATCHES[@]}"
+	default
 	sed -i -e "s:-lpcre ::" libpcrecpp.pc.in || die
 	elibtoolize
 }
@@ -59,18 +55,18 @@
 		--with-match-limit-recursion=$(usex recursion-limit 8192 MATCH_LIMIT)
 		$(multilib_native_use_enable bzip2 pcregrep-libbz2)
 		$(use_enable cxx cpp)
-		$(use_enable jit) $(use_enable jit pcregrep-jit)
+		$(use_enable jit)
+		$(use_enable jit pcregrep-jit)
 		$(use_enable pcre16)
 		$(use_enable pcre32)
 		$(multilib_native_use_enable libedit pcretest-libedit)
 		$(multilib_native_use_enable readline pcretest-libreadline)
 		$(use_enable static-libs static)
-		$(use_enable unicode utf) $(use_enable unicode unicode-properties)
+		$(use_enable unicode utf)
+		$(use_enable unicode unicode-properties)
 		$(multilib_native_use_enable zlib pcregrep-libz)
 		--enable-pcre8
 		--enable-shared
-		--htmldir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html
-		--docdir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}
 	)
 	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
 }
@@ -88,7 +84,7 @@
 }
 
 multilib_src_install_all() {
-	prune_libtool_files
+	find "${ED}" -type f -name "*.la" -delete || die
 }
 
 pkg_preinst() {
diff --git a/metadata/md5-cache/dev-libs/libpcre-8.41-r1 b/metadata/md5-cache/dev-libs/libpcre-8.41-r1
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ab821f..0000000
--- a/metadata/md5-cache/dev-libs/libpcre-8.41-r1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-DEFINED_PHASES=compile configure install postinst preinst prepare test
-DEPEND=bzip2? ( app-arch/bzip2 ) zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib ) libedit? ( dev-libs/libedit ) readline? ( sys-libs/readline:0= ) virtual/pkgconfig >=app-portage/elt-patches-20170815
-DESCRIPTION=Perl-compatible regular expression library
-EAPI=5
-HOMEPAGE=http://www.pcre.org/
-IUSE=bzip2 +cxx +jit libedit pcre16 pcre32 +readline +recursion-limit static-libs unicode zlib abi_x86_32 abi_x86_64 abi_x86_x32 abi_mips_n32 abi_mips_n64 abi_mips_o32 abi_ppc_32 abi_ppc_64 abi_s390_32 abi_s390_64 abi_arm_32 abi_arm_64
-KEYWORDS=*
-LICENSE=BSD
-RDEPEND=bzip2? ( app-arch/bzip2 ) zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib ) libedit? ( dev-libs/libedit ) readline? ( sys-libs/readline:0= )
-REQUIRED_USE=readline? ( !libedit ) libedit? ( !readline )
-SLOT=3
-SRC_URI=mirror://sourceforge/pcre/pcre-8.41.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.41.tar.bz2
-_eclasses_=eutils	06133990e861be0fe60c2b428fd025d9	flag-o-matic	5d5921a298e95441da2f85be419894c0	libtool	f143db5a74ccd9ca28c1234deffede96	multibuild	40fe59465edacd730c644ec2bc197809	multilib	b2f01ad412baf81650c23fcf0975fa33	multilib-build	1979aa0ff4d356d32507ca4650d9f37d	multilib-minimal	8bddda43703ba94d8341f4e247f97566	toolchain-funcs	209edad4a5c4812e7b2f8021650974f0
-_md5_=e94fc8bff73ffb89434133a0f7975e2f
diff --git a/metadata/md5-cache/dev-libs/libpcre-8.44 b/metadata/md5-cache/dev-libs/libpcre-8.44
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4bbb338
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metadata/md5-cache/dev-libs/libpcre-8.44
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+BDEPEND=virtual/pkgconfig >=app-portage/elt-patches-20170815
+DEFINED_PHASES=compile configure install postinst preinst prepare test
+DEPEND=bzip2? ( app-arch/bzip2 ) zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib ) libedit? ( dev-libs/libedit ) readline? ( sys-libs/readline:0= )
+DESCRIPTION=Perl-compatible regular expression library
+EAPI=7
+HOMEPAGE=http://www.pcre.org/
+IUSE=bzip2 +cxx +jit libedit pcre16 pcre32 +readline +recursion-limit static-libs unicode zlib abi_x86_32 abi_x86_64 abi_x86_x32 abi_mips_n32 abi_mips_n64 abi_mips_o32 abi_ppc_32 abi_ppc_64 abi_s390_32 abi_s390_64 abi_arm_32 abi_arm_64 split-usr
+KEYWORDS=*
+LICENSE=BSD
+RDEPEND=bzip2? ( app-arch/bzip2 ) zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib ) libedit? ( dev-libs/libedit ) readline? ( sys-libs/readline:0= )
+REQUIRED_USE=readline? ( !libedit ) libedit? ( !readline )
+SLOT=3
+SRC_URI=mirror://sourceforge/pcre/pcre-8.44.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.44.tar.bz2
+_eclasses_=eutils	06133990e861be0fe60c2b428fd025d9	flag-o-matic	5d5921a298e95441da2f85be419894c0	libtool	f143db5a74ccd9ca28c1234deffede96	multibuild	40fe59465edacd730c644ec2bc197809	multilib	2477ebe553d3e4d2c606191fe6c33602	multilib-build	1979aa0ff4d356d32507ca4650d9f37d	multilib-minimal	8bddda43703ba94d8341f4e247f97566	preserve-libs	ef207dc62baddfddfd39a164d9797648	toolchain-funcs	605c126bed8d87e4378d5ff1645330cb	usr-ldscript	766f0a506b45f02361ad1b8ca205b7e1
+_md5_=7d4e770e0e43995c68d769c3f6c87c93