diff --git a/p5-gd/.footprint b/p5-gd/.footprint
index 36b26c6c5..13e2060a2 100644
--- a/p5-gd/.footprint
+++ b/p5-gd/.footprint
@@ -4,19 +4,19 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/linux-thread-multi/
--r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/linux-thread-multi/GD.pm
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/linux-thread-multi/GD/
--r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/linux-thread-multi/GD/Group.pm
--r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/linux-thread-multi/GD/Image.pm
--r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/linux-thread-multi/GD/Polygon.pm
--r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/linux-thread-multi/GD/Polyline.pm
--r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/linux-thread-multi/GD/Simple.pm
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/linux-thread-multi/auto/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/linux-thread-multi/auto/GD/
--r-xr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/linux-thread-multi/auto/GD/GD.so
--r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/linux-thread-multi/qd.pl
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/linux-thread-multi/
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/linux-thread-multi/GD.pm
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/linux-thread-multi/GD/
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/linux-thread-multi/GD/Group.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/linux-thread-multi/GD/Image.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/linux-thread-multi/GD/Polygon.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/linux-thread-multi/GD/Polyline.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/linux-thread-multi/GD/Simple.pm
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/linux-thread-multi/auto/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/linux-thread-multi/auto/GD/
+-r-xr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/linux-thread-multi/auto/GD/GD.so
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/linux-thread-multi/qd.pl
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man1/
 -r--r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man1/bdf2gdfont.pl.1pm.gz
diff --git a/p5-gd/.md5sum b/p5-gd/.md5sum
index 944b3194c..fb7ff9a6c 100644
--- a/p5-gd/.md5sum
+++ b/p5-gd/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-ea86a94eb45330eae27ecbfd5c2f43bb  GD-2.46.tar.gz
+d2c9b18123bcaff8672eb50f2eb37ed3  GD-2.53.tar.gz
diff --git a/p5-gd/Pkgfile b/p5-gd/Pkgfile
index 0eed4342b..a58666968 100644
--- a/p5-gd/Pkgfile
+++ b/p5-gd/Pkgfile
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Description:	Perl interface to GD graphics library 
-# URL:	http://search.cpan.org/~lds/GD-2.46/
+# URL:		http://search.cpan.org/~lds/GD-2.53/
 # Maintainer:	Alan Mizrahi, alan at mizrahi dot com dot ve
-# Depends on:	perl, libgd
+# Depends on:	perl libgd
 
 name=p5-gd
-version=2.46
+version=2.53
 release=1
 source=(http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/GD-$version.tar.gz )