diff --git a/package/perl-package-stash/Config.in b/package/perl-package-stash/Config.in
index 6b7ca24782..05506c2424 100644
--- a/package/perl-package-stash/Config.in
+++ b/package/perl-package-stash/Config.in
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_PACKAGE_STASH
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_DIST_CHECKCONFLICTS # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_MODULE_IMPLEMENTATION # runtime
 	help
-	  routines for manipulating stashes.
+	  Routines for manipulating stashes.
 
-	  http://metacpan.org/release/Package-Stash
+	  https://github.com/moose/Package-Stash
diff --git a/package/perl-package-stash/perl-package-stash.hash b/package/perl-package-stash/perl-package-stash.hash
index 0bbac515e2..329d2dbbbf 100644
--- a/package/perl-package-stash/perl-package-stash.hash
+++ b/package/perl-package-stash/perl-package-stash.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# retrieved by scancpan from http://cpan.metacpan.org/
-md5  287d80c9115c9230912aca684f8ca92e  Package-Stash-0.39.tar.gz
-sha256  9165f555112e080493ce0e9129de0886da30b2593fb353a2abd1c76b2d2621b5  Package-Stash-0.39.tar.gz
+# retrieved by scancpan from https://cpan.metacpan.org/
+md5  7a2922941cc2aad6a52642e4fb13d07b  Package-Stash-0.40.tar.gz
+sha256  5a9722c6d9cb29ee133e5f7b08a5362762a0b5633ff5170642a5b0686e95e066  Package-Stash-0.40.tar.gz
 
 # computed by scancpan
-sha256  810b319a6f4a53c9cbbef513da17b2f0c872accd149bb889f153f4b78cf8cbb8  LICENSE
+sha256  5f82745d355b43f451c557642618cbd903251192b89f31ca53eaab90c35aeb7c  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/perl-package-stash/perl-package-stash.mk b/package/perl-package-stash/perl-package-stash.mk
index bc116abca3..dd93314d82 100644
--- a/package/perl-package-stash/perl-package-stash.mk
+++ b/package/perl-package-stash/perl-package-stash.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PERL_PACKAGE_STASH_VERSION = 0.39
+PERL_PACKAGE_STASH_VERSION = 0.40
 PERL_PACKAGE_STASH_SOURCE = Package-Stash-$(PERL_PACKAGE_STASH_VERSION).tar.gz
 PERL_PACKAGE_STASH_SITE = $(BR2_CPAN_MIRROR)/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER
 PERL_PACKAGE_STASH_LICENSE = Artistic or GPL-1.0+