diff --git a/perl/.md5sum b/perl/.md5sum
index 0ebd2a4f..f82156cc 100644
--- a/perl/.md5sum
+++ b/perl/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-00575bc3b7d5b23a9db83683413386ea  perl-5.16.1-RC1.tar.bz2
+b87358e2c461a898cfd7c334e7dd8993  perl-5.16.1.tar.bz2
diff --git a/perl/Pkgfile b/perl/Pkgfile
index 37094bb0..9067f4c1 100644
--- a/perl/Pkgfile
+++ b/perl/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on:  db gdbm
 
 name=perl
-version=5.16.1-RC1
+version=5.16.1
 release=1
 source=(http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/$name-$version.tar.bz2)