3 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ruby/sequel/README b/ruby/sequel/README
index 8834582bc1b1..1d179eccf99a 100644
--- a/ruby/sequel/README
+++ b/ruby/sequel/README
@@ -1 +1,13 @@
-Sequel is a simple, flexible, and powerful SQL database access toolkit for Ruby
+Sequel is a simple, flexible, and powerful SQL database access toolkit for
+Ruby.
+
+Sequel provides thread safety, connection pooling and a concise DSL for
+constructing SQL queries and table schemas.
+Sequel includes a comprehensive ORM layer for mapping records to Ruby objects
+and handling associated records.
+Sequel supports advanced database features such as prepared statements, bound
+variables, stored procedures, savepoints, two-phase commit, transaction
+isolation, master/slave configurations, and database sharding.
+Sequel currently has adapters for ADO, Amalgalite, CUBRID, DataObjects,
+IBM_DB, JDBC, MySQL, Mysql2, ODBC, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLAnywhere, SQLite3,
+Swift, and TinyTDS.
diff --git a/ruby/sequel/sequel.SlackBuild b/ruby/sequel/sequel.SlackBuild
index 60c260c77a96..4ffc146c945e 100644
--- a/ruby/sequel/sequel.SlackBuild
+++ b/ruby/sequel/sequel.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=sequel
-VERSION=${VERSION:-4.43.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-4.44.0}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/ruby/sequel/sequel.info b/ruby/sequel/sequel.info
index e0b6a5786a68..7e7b5d46ae21 100644
--- a/ruby/sequel/sequel.info
+++ b/ruby/sequel/sequel.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="sequel"
-VERSION="4.43.0"
+VERSION="4.44.0"
 HOMEPAGE="http://sequel.jeremyevans.net/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://rubygems.org/downloads/sequel-4.43.0.gem"
-MD5SUM="be49720f301d2f5629f037114804fcf5"
+DOWNLOAD="http://rubygems.org/downloads/sequel-4.44.0.gem"
+MD5SUM="331bc115e9cd4151106cee86b49c4c4c"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""