diff --git a/package/perl/perl.hash b/package/perl/perl.hash
index aba2844036..04ebf83b33 100644
--- a/package/perl/perl.hash
+++ b/package/perl/perl.hash
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-# Hashes from: https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.40.0.tar.xz.{md5,sha1,sha256}.txt
-md5  cfe14ef0709b9687f9c514042e8e1e82  perl-5.40.0.tar.xz
-sha1  4a3af1f62afc611aa1552adc6c7ec389e9723bce  perl-5.40.0.tar.xz
-sha256  d5325300ad267624cb0b7d512cfdfcd74fa7fe00c455c5b51a6bd53e5e199ef9  perl-5.40.0.tar.xz
+# Hashes from: https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.40.1.tar.xz.{md5,sha1,sha256}.txt
+md5  bab3547a5cdf2302ee0396419d74a42e  perl-5.40.1.tar.xz
+sha1  4ffe5246c791df884363aed05ba81ba41cb02084  perl-5.40.1.tar.xz
+sha256  dfa20c2eef2b4af133525610bbb65dd13777ecf998c9c5b1ccf0d308e732ee3f  perl-5.40.1.tar.xz
 
-# Hash from: https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/releases/download/1.6/perl-cross-1.6.hash
-sha256  5abf198ee50ce9e69eb68fede68c87f65241caa744e4203e97490fa59b45ed69  perl-cross-1.6.tar.gz
+# Hash from: https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/releases/download/1.6.1/perl-cross-1.6.1.hash
+sha256  b5f4b4457bbd7be37adac8ee423beedbcdba8963a85f79770f5e701dabc5550f  perl-cross-1.6.1.tar.gz
 
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  dd90d4f42e4dcadf5a7c09eea0189d93c7b37ae560c91f0f6d5233ed3b9292a2  Artistic
 sha256  d77d235e41d54594865151f4751e835c5a82322b0e87ace266567c3391a4b912  Copying
-sha256  05fcf86432bd78754c7e325d4be44a5968344c01cc08c004b685172ea508ec23  README
+sha256  af805523b88a8ebb60afc009caaf247a498208502f7b8b3d9d3e329fcfb1dc3b  README
diff --git a/package/perl/perl.mk b/package/perl/perl.mk
index dc7c0b8d42..37b9fe185d 100644
--- a/package/perl/perl.mk
+++ b/package/perl/perl.mk
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 # When updating the version here, also update utils/scancpan
 PERL_VERSION_MAJOR = 40
-PERL_VERSION = 5.$(PERL_VERSION_MAJOR).0
+PERL_VERSION = 5.$(PERL_VERSION_MAJOR).1
 PERL_SITE = https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0
 PERL_SOURCE = perl-$(PERL_VERSION).tar.xz
 PERL_LICENSE = Artistic or GPL-1.0+
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ PERL_CPE_ID_VENDOR = perl
 PERL_DEPENDENCIES = $(TARGET_NLS_DEPENDENCIES)
 PERL_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 
-PERL_CROSS_VERSION = 1.6
+PERL_CROSS_VERSION = 1.6.1
 # DO NOT refactor with the github helper (the result is not the same)
 PERL_CROSS_SITE = https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/releases/download/$(PERL_CROSS_VERSION)
 PERL_CROSS_SOURCE = perl-cross-$(PERL_CROSS_VERSION).tar.gz