diff --git a/perl/perl-GD/perl-GD.SlackBuild b/perl/perl-GD/perl-GD.SlackBuild
index fa22cc9e3a..a991f49e55 100644
--- a/perl/perl-GD/perl-GD.SlackBuild
+++ b/perl/perl-GD/perl-GD.SlackBuild
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 # Licensed under the WTFPL. See http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/ for details.
 
+# 20230105 bkw: update for v2.76. 'make test' works OK now, uncommented.
+
 # 20211012 bkw: BUILD=2. Fix -current build, by commenting out
 # 'make test'. This is because of the (fairly) recent gd-2.3.3
 # update in -current. libgd upstream changed the default for the
@@ -24,7 +26,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=perl-GD
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.73}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.76}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -95,7 +97,7 @@ perl Makefile.PL \
   INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR=/usr/man/man3 \
   INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR=/usr/man/man1
 make
-# make test # commented out until further notice!
+make test # used to fail in 2.73, works OK in 2.76
 make install DESTDIR=$PKG
 
 find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
diff --git a/perl/perl-GD/perl-GD.info b/perl/perl-GD/perl-GD.info
index 79d5a8a03f..41d2ff680b 100644
--- a/perl/perl-GD/perl-GD.info
+++ b/perl/perl-GD/perl-GD.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="perl-GD"
-VERSION="2.73"
+VERSION="2.76"
 HOMEPAGE="https://metacpan.org/pod/GD"
-DOWNLOAD="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/R/RU/RURBAN/GD-2.73.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="c2bf1ca56d15e33d2432e4d8ba5aeadf"
+DOWNLOAD="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/R/RU/RURBAN/GD-2.76.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="fb4bacab10ed4f28d52c2aabdaf866bb"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="perl-extutils-pkgconfig"