diff --git a/community/libharu/APKBUILD b/community/libharu/APKBUILD
index f8f22644a39..d6f4ef9bc88 100644
--- a/community/libharu/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/libharu/APKBUILD
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Contributor: Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>
 # Maintainer: Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=libharu
-pkgver=2.4.3
+pkgver=2.4.4
 pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="C library for generating PDF documents"
 url="https://github.com/libharu/libharu"
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ license="custom"
 depends_dev="libpng-dev"
 makedepends="$depends_dev cmake samurai"
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev $pkgname-doc"
-source="https://github.com/libharu/libharu/archive/v$pkgver/libharu-$pkgver.tar.gz
-	soversion.patch
-	"
+source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/libharu/libharu/archive/refs/tags/v$pkgver.tar.gz"
 options="!check" # no tests
 
 build() {
@@ -34,6 +32,5 @@ package() {
 }
 
 sha512sums="
-4b01dd0d23bdcaec6f69fe5f059902e7f49eafdf19d53d4cce8b4d52a54b2057b764de29390f4da9e75aeb32cb6af8606b23478b04edf9f7dcb1e4b769c5fff2  libharu-2.4.3.tar.gz
-8e65e377c17a6c2471c1302ff3be9f1e685ae5a63e202aff16006e2560046603e770a640f4b0f25046573e54e75142b7546393bd0cfa4e9da38e9aa3053f848d  soversion.patch
+422210b09f89643cb25808559aeea109db5cce8a71c779d51f87222cdd50434f4f0f92322ebe429fca8f85ad73592bcabb14c3e36cd0bea19b6ec4c729220522  libharu-2.4.4.tar.gz
 "
diff --git a/community/libharu/soversion.patch b/community/libharu/soversion.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ce3864ff02..00000000000
--- a/community/libharu/soversion.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
-index b87af66..b919df9 100644
---- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ set(
- # create hpdf library
- # =======================================================================
- add_library(hpdf ${LIBHPDF_SRCS})
-+set_target_properties(hpdf PROPERTIES
-+    VERSION ${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION}
-+    SOVERSION ${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION}
-+)
- if (PNG_FOUND)
-     include_directories (${PNG_INCLUDE_DIRS})
-     target_link_libraries (hpdf ${PNG_LIBRARIES})