diff --git a/lang/perl/Makefile b/lang/perl/Makefile
index a1b7f4279..39a018ad9 100644
--- a/lang/perl/Makefile
+++ b/lang/perl/Makefile
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=perl
-PKG_VERSION:=5.22.0
-PKG_RELEASE:=5
+PKG_VERSION:=5.22.1
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/5.0 \
 		http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0 \
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ PKG_SOURCE_URL:=ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/5.0 \
 		ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/src/5.0 \
 		http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/src/5.0
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
-PKG_MD5SUM:=e32cb6a8dda0084f2a43dac76318d68d
+PKG_MD5SUM:=19295bbb775a3c36123161b9bf4892f1
 
 PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-1.0+ Artistic-1.0-Perl
 PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=Copying Artistic README
diff --git a/lang/perl/files/version.config b/lang/perl/files/version.config
index 7ffe9043c..98cd2a585 100644
--- a/lang/perl/files/version.config
+++ b/lang/perl/files/version.config
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Set the version here
 PERL_REVISION=5
 PERL_VERSION=22
-PERL_SUBVERSION=0
+PERL_SUBVERSION=1
 
 # (api_revison, api_version, api_subversion) = (revision, version, 0) usually
 PERL_API_REVISION=5