diff --git a/security/strongswan/ar-usage.patch b/security/strongswan/ar-usage.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d157a85b1..000000000
--- a/security/strongswan/ar-usage.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-#
-# Filename: package/.../strongswan/ar-usage.patch
-# Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
-#
-# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
-#
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
-# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
-# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
-# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
-# version.
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
-AR might be set to a cross toolchain -ar ...
-
-  - Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>
-
---- strongswan-2.4.4/lib/libcrypto/libblowfish/Makefile.vanilla	2005-06-22 20:33:19.000000000 +0200
-+++ strongswan-2.4.4/lib/libcrypto/libblowfish/Makefile	2005-06-22 20:33:32.000000000 +0200
-@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
- MAKE=		make -f Makefile.ssl
- MAKEDEPEND=	$(TOP)/util/domd $(TOP)
- MAKEFILE=	Makefile.ssl
--AR=		ar r
-+AR=		ar
- RANLIB=		ranlib
- PERL=		perl
- 
-@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
- lib:	$(LIB)
- 
- $(LIB):	$(LIBOBJ)
--	$(AR) $(LIB) $(LIBOBJ)
-+	$(AR) r $(LIB) $(LIBOBJ)
- 	$(RANLIB) $(LIB)
- 
- # elf
diff --git a/security/strongswan/strongswan.conf b/security/strongswan/strongswan.conf
index 3de8ac4fb..59be7a58c 100644
--- a/security/strongswan/strongswan.conf
+++ b/security/strongswan/strongswan.conf
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../strongswan/strongswan.conf
+# Copyright (C) 2010 The OpenSDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 #
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
@@ -21,44 +22,18 @@ if [ $prefix_auto = 1 ] ; then
         set_confopt
 fi
 
-var_append makeopt " " "programs"
-
-strongswan_premake () {
-
-	# 2005-06-17: Christian Wiese <jeru@ixplanet.org>
-        # it seems that strongswan doesn't like the appending of certain makeopt's
-        # so we've to use sed for now for tweaking the Makefiles.
-        # Any ideas for solving this issue are higly appreciated ;)
-
-	PLUTO_MAKEFILE="programs/pluto/Makefile"
-
-	# setting install prefix
-	# var_append makeopt  ' ' "DESTDIR=/"
-	# var_append makeopt  ' ' "INC_USRLOCAL=/$prefix"
-	sed -i "/INC_USRLOCAL=/s,/.*,/$prefix," Makefile.inc
-
-	# setting config file location
-	var_append makeopt  ' ' "FINALCONFDIR=$sysconfdir"
-
-	# checking if we can enable CRL fetching using HTTP
-	if pkginstalled curl; then
-		# var_append makeopt  ' ' "LIBCURL=1"
-		sed -i 's/^#\(LIBCURL\)/\1/' $PLUTO_MAKEFILE
-	fi
+# checking if we can enable CRL fetching using HTTP
+if pkginstalled curl; then
+	var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--enable-curl"
+fi
 
-	# checking if we can enable CRL fetching using LDAP
-	if pkginstalled openldap; then
-                pkgprefix -t openldap
-                var_append CFLAGS   ' ' "-I$( pkgprefix includedir openldap )"
-                var_append CPPFLAGS ' ' "-I$( pkgprefix includedir openldap )"
-                var_append LDFLAGS  ' ' "-L$( pkgprefix libdir openldap )"
-                export CPPFLAGS CFLAGS LDFLAGS
+# checking if we can enable CRL fetching using LDAP
+if pkginstalled openldap; then
+	pkgprefix -t openldap
+	var_append CFLAGS   ' ' "-I$( pkgprefix includedir openldap )"
+	var_append CPPFLAGS ' ' "-I$( pkgprefix includedir openldap )"
+	var_append LDFLAGS  ' ' "-L$( pkgprefix libdir openldap )"
+	export CPPFLAGS CFLAGS LDFLAGS
 
-		# var_append makeopt  ' ' "LDAP_VERSION=3"
-		sed -i 's/^#\(LDAP_VERSION=3\)/\1/' $PLUTO_MAKEFILE
-        fi
-
-        var_append makeopt  ' ' "USERCOMPILE=$CFLAGS"
+	var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--enable-ldap"
 }
-
-hook_add premake 5 "strongswan_premake"
diff --git a/security/strongswan/strongswan.desc b/security/strongswan/strongswan.desc
index 1d73960bc..1e763792e 100644
--- a/security/strongswan/strongswan.desc
+++ b/security/strongswan/strongswan.desc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 [COPY]
 [COPY] Filename: package/.../strongswan/strongswan.desc
-[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2010 The OpenSDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 [COPY]
 [COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 [L] GPL
 
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.8.3
+[V] 4.4.1
 [P] X -----5---9 200.500
 
-[D] 4016879581 strongswan-2.8.3.tar.bz2 http://download.strongswan.org/
+[D] 3282747467 strongswan-4.4.1.tar.bz2 http://download.strongswan.org/