diff --git a/perl/perl-AppConfig/perl-AppConfig.SlackBuild b/perl/perl-AppConfig/perl-AppConfig.SlackBuild
index c787533de7..d28dcd8fd2 100644
--- a/perl/perl-AppConfig/perl-AppConfig.SlackBuild
+++ b/perl/perl-AppConfig/perl-AppConfig.SlackBuild
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 SRCNAM=AppConfig
 PRGNAM=perl-$SRCNAM
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.69}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.71}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/perl/perl-AppConfig/perl-AppConfig.info b/perl/perl-AppConfig/perl-AppConfig.info
index 4fd10d9443..b95d892bf6 100644
--- a/perl/perl-AppConfig/perl-AppConfig.info
+++ b/perl/perl-AppConfig/perl-AppConfig.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="perl-AppConfig"
-VERSION="1.69"
+VERSION="1.71"
 HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~neilb/AppConfig/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/N/NE/NEILB/AppConfig-1.69.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="b60858328ddcc8e6cabd798f5d86c535"
+DOWNLOAD="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/N/NE/NEILB/AppConfig-1.71.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="7747d9241561ed5567d5e134b8648707"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""