diff --git a/recipes/fdb/5.18/environments.yaml b/recipes/fdb/5.18/environments.yaml
index 34350cd..24366c3 100644
--- a/recipes/fdb/5.18/environments.yaml
+++ b/recipes/fdb/5.18/environments.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ fdb:
   - gribjump@=0.10.2
   - eckit@=1.32.3 linalg=none
   - metkit@=1.15.2-levelist
-  - eccodes@=2.39.5 jp2k=none ~fortran +pthreads +aec
+  - eccodes@=2.44.0 jp2k=none ~fortran +pthreads +aec
   - ecbuild@=3.12.0
   - python@=3.11.6
   variants:
diff --git a/recipes/fdb/5.18/meta/private/pyproject.toml b/recipes/fdb/5.18/meta/private/pyproject.toml
index 990e4b5..b37269e 100644
--- a/recipes/fdb/5.18/meta/private/pyproject.toml
+++ b/recipes/fdb/5.18/meta/private/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ package-mode = false
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = "~3.11"
-meteodata-lab = {version = "0.6.0", extras = ["polytope", "regrid"]}
+meteodata-lab = {path = "/users/nnellen/meteodata-lab-13a684f3a928dd1b23b942e908ad41f00f9d925b", extras = ["polytope", "regrid"]}
 # version > 0.1.1 of pyfdb requires eccodes >= 2.39
 pyfdb = "0.1.3"
 fdb-utils = { git = "https://github.com/MeteoSwiss/fdb-utils.git", tag = "v1.3.5"}
diff --git a/recipes/fdb/5.18/repo/packages/eccodes/package.py b/recipes/fdb/5.18/repo/packages/eccodes/package.py
index 836b865..aa821d7 100644
--- a/recipes/fdb/5.18/repo/packages/eccodes/package.py
+++ b/recipes/fdb/5.18/repo/packages/eccodes/package.py
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ class Eccodes(CMakePackage):
 
     version("develop", branch="develop")
 
+    version("2.44.0", sha256="c75fb1f91b765b6b8b4774632a8a6fbcec96934db015fb63c2ad2560aedd443b")
     version("2.42.0", sha256="60371b357cb011dee546db2eabace5b7e27f0f87d3ea4a5adde7891371b3c128")
     version("2.39.5", git="https://github.com/ecmwf/eccodes.git", tag="2.39.5")
     version("2.39.0", sha256="0c4d746700acc49af9c878925f1b26bdd42443ff7c2d7c676deb2babb6847afb")