diff --git a/databases/ruby-mysql2/Makefile b/databases/ruby-mysql2/Makefile
index acda267599c..9eac6abf016 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-mysql2/Makefile
+++ b/databases/ruby-mysql2/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.21 2015/04/16 20:34:29 jeremy Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.22 2016/05/05 22:46:27 jeremy Exp $
 
 COMMENT=	modern, simple and very fast MySQL library for Ruby
 
-DISTNAME=	mysql2-0.3.18
+DISTNAME=	mysql2-0.4.4
 CATEGORIES=	databases
 
 HOMEPAGE=	https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2
diff --git a/databases/ruby-mysql2/distinfo b/databases/ruby-mysql2/distinfo
index 29ef1eb675d..2b0fa106466 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-mysql2/distinfo
+++ b/databases/ruby-mysql2/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA256 (mysql2-0.3.18.gem) = 01R3qvGl/FCFEa9cUhZ1uIeCda0K+cEuHPIitQ4oVzU=
-SIZE (mysql2-0.3.18.gem) = 50688
+SHA256 (mysql2-0.4.4.gem) = Kt9y3lhYHdsXq+lS9ceEPuDK80Ve0gyC+cQVg846o+w=
+SIZE (mysql2-0.4.4.gem) = 73728
diff --git a/databases/ruby-mysql2/patches/patch-ext_mysql2_extconf_rb b/databases/ruby-mysql2/patches/patch-ext_mysql2_extconf_rb
deleted file mode 100644
index f7f1e10e98f..00000000000
--- a/databases/ruby-mysql2/patches/patch-ext_mysql2_extconf_rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-$OpenBSD: patch-ext_mysql2_extconf_rb,v 1.2 2013/10/26 23:48:40 jeremy Exp $
---- ext/mysql2/extconf.rb.orig	Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
-+++ ext/mysql2/extconf.rb	Tue Jul 16 08:47:55 2013
-@@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ elsif mc = (with_config('mysql-config') || Dir[GLOB].f
-   ver = `#{mc} --version`.chomp.to_f
-   cflags = `#{mc} --cflags`.chomp
-   exit 1 if $? != 0
--  libs = `#{mc} --libs_r`.chomp
-+  #libs = `#{mc} --libs_r`.chomp
-   # MySQL 5.5 and above already have re-entrant code in libmysqlclient (no _r).
--  if ver >= 5.5 || libs.empty?
-+  #if ver >= 5.5 || libs.empty?
-     libs = `#{mc} --libs`.chomp
--  end
-+  #end
-   exit 1 if $? != 0
-   $CPPFLAGS += ' ' + cflags
-   $libs = libs + " " + $libs
diff --git a/databases/ruby-mysql2/pkg/PLIST b/databases/ruby-mysql2/pkg/PLIST
index c066f5fe3ec..a3ae8ddc823 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-mysql2/pkg/PLIST
+++ b/databases/ruby-mysql2/pkg/PLIST
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.8 2015/04/16 20:34:29 jeremy Exp $
+@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.9 2016/05/05 22:46:27 jeremy Exp $
 ${GEM_LIB}/cache/${DISTNAME}.gem
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/CHANGELOG.md
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/LICENSE
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/README.md
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/examples/
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/examples/eventmachine.rb
@@ -12,8 +14,10 @@ ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/lib/mysql2/client.rb
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/lib/mysql2/console.rb
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/lib/mysql2/em.rb
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/lib/mysql2/error.rb
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/lib/mysql2/field.rb
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/lib/mysql2/mysql2.so
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/lib/mysql2/result.rb
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/lib/mysql2/statement.rb
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/lib/mysql2/version.rb
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/configuration.yml.example
@@ -24,8 +28,23 @@ ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/mysql2/
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/mysql2/client_spec.rb
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/mysql2/error_spec.rb
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/mysql2/result_spec.rb
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/mysql2/statement_spec.rb
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/rcov.opts
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/spec_helper.rb
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/ca-cert.pem
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/ca-key.pem
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/ca.cnf
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/cert.cnf
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/client-cert.pem
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/client-key.pem
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/client-req.pem
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/gen_certs.sh
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/pkcs8-client-key.pem
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/pkcs8-server-key.pem
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/server-cert.pem
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/server-key.pem
+${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/ssl/server-req.pem
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/spec/test_data
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/support/
 ${GEM_LIB}/gems/${DISTNAME}/support/libmysql.def