diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-tornado/patches/0001-use-system-ca-certificates.patch b/srcpkgs/python-tornado/patches/0001-use-system-ca-certificates.patch
index ed04e36828..1c836ad82e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-tornado/patches/0001-use-system-ca-certificates.patch
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-tornado/patches/0001-use-system-ca-certificates.patch
@@ -1,32 +1,11 @@
 --- setup.py.orig
 +++ setup.py
-@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ if (platform.python_implementation() == 'CPython' and
+@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ if setuptools is not None:
          # Certifi is also optional on 2.7.9+, although making our dependencies
          # conditional on micro version numbers seems like a bad idea
          # until we have more declarative metadata.
 -        install_requires.append('certifi')
-+        pass
++        # install_requires.append('certifi')
      if sys.version_info < (3, 5):
          install_requires.append('backports_abc>=0.4')
- kwargs['install_requires'] = install_requires
---- tornado/simple_httpclient.py.orig
-+++ tornado/simple_httpclient.py
-@@ -33,17 +33,9 @@ except ImportError:
-     # ssl is not available on Google App Engine.
-     ssl = None
- 
--try:
--    import certifi
--except ImportError:
--    certifi = None
--
- 
- def _default_ca_certs():
--    if certifi is None:
--        raise Exception("The 'certifi' package is required to use https "
--                        "in simple_httpclient")
--    return certifi.where()
-+    return "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"
- 
- 
- class SimpleAsyncHTTPClient(AsyncHTTPClient):
+     kwargs['install_requires'] = install_requires
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-tornado/patches/0002-no-backports.ssl_match_hostname.patch b/srcpkgs/python-tornado/patches/0002-no-backports.ssl_match_hostname.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a34fe0b0c5..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python-tornado/patches/0002-no-backports.ssl_match_hostname.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- setup.py.orig
-+++ setup.py
-@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ def build_extension(self, ext):
-     if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
-         # Only needed indirectly, for singledispatch.
-         install_requires.append('ordereddict')
--    if sys.version_info < (3, 2):
-+    if sys.version_info < (2, 7, 9) or (3, 0) <= sys.version_info < (3, 2):
-         install_requires.append('backports.ssl_match_hostname')
-     if sys.version_info < (3, 4):
-         install_requires.append('singledispatch')
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-tornado/template b/srcpkgs/python-tornado/template
index a8feb8a2c2..0147556cd1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-tornado/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-tornado/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'python-tornado'
 pkgname=python-tornado
-version=4.3
-revision=2
+version=4.4.1
+revision=1
 wrksrc="tornado-${version}"
 build_style=python-module
 python_versions="2.7 3.4"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.tornadoweb.org/"
 license="Apache-2.0"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/t/tornado/tornado-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=c9c2d32593d16eedf2cec1b6a41893626a2649b40b21ca9c4cac4243bde2efbf
+checksum=371d0cf3d56c47accc66116a77ad558d76eebaa8458a6b677af71ca606522146
 
 python3.4-tornado_package() {
 	pycompile_version="3.4"