diff --git a/lang/perl-uri/Makefile b/lang/perl-uri/Makefile
index e3f566efb..18667fcdb 100644
--- a/lang/perl-uri/Makefile
+++ b/lang/perl-uri/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2015 OpenWrt.org
+# Copyright (C) 2015 - 2016 OpenWrt.org
 #
 # This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
 # See /LICENSE for more information.
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=perl-uri
-PKG_VERSION:=1.69
+PKG_VERSION:=1.71
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/
 PKG_SOURCE:=URI-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
-PKG_MD5SUM:=3c56aee0300bce5a440ccbd558277ea0
+PKG_MD5SUM:=247c3da29a794f72730e01aa5a715daf
 
 PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-1.0+ Artistic-1.0-Perl
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Marcel Denia <naoir@gmx.net>