diff --git a/programming/language/perl/perl-URI/pspec.xml b/programming/language/perl/perl-URI/pspec.xml
index fb5a637076..dcdc73980e 100644
--- a/programming/language/perl/perl-URI/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/language/perl/perl-URI/pspec.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         <IsA>library</IsA>
         <Summary>Perl module for Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)</Summary>
         <Description>A Uniform Resource Identifier is a compact string of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource. A Uniform Resource Identifier can be further classified as either a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or a Uniform Resource Name (URN).</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="940315985af24b9f4bb5a9761b1e2bbe6c1d0df3" type="targz">http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/URI-1.60.tar.gz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="c609c5830899176b61100fce8f10436128471064" type="targz">http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/URI-1.71.tar.gz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>perl</Dependency>
         </BuildDependencies>
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="5">
+            <Date>2016-03-14</Date>
+            <Version>1.71</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Marcin Bojara</Name>
+            <Email>marcin@pisilinux.org</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="4">
             <Date>2014-09-10</Date>
             <Version>1.60</Version>