diff --git a/programming/language/perl/perl-Alien-Build/pspec.xml b/programming/language/perl/perl-Alien-Build/pspec.xml
index 04ccfcc9d8..05396f058f 100644
--- a/programming/language/perl/perl-Alien-Build/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/language/perl/perl-Alien-Build/pspec.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
         <IsA>library</IsA>
         <Summary>A perl module to build external dependencies for use in CPAN</Summary>
         <Description>perl-Alien-Build provides tools for building external (non-CPAN) dependencies for CPAN. It is mainly designed to be used at install time of a CPAN client, and work closely with Alien::Base which is used at runtime.</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="bb20d304a1653846f431e7b4aa673d44797587de" type="targz">https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/P/PL/PLICEASE/Alien-Build-2.26.tar.gz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="3d948502f95573afeb3f959895d71e62808c3204" type="targz">https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/P/PL/PLICEASE/Alien-Build-2.29.tar.gz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>perl</Dependency>
             <Dependency>perl-path-tiny</Dependency>
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     <History>
         <Update release="4">
             <Date>2020-07-20</Date>
-            <Version>2.26</Version>
+            <Version>2.29</Version>
             <Comment>Minor version bump.</Comment>
             <Name>Blue Devil</Name>
             <Email>bluedevil@sctzine.com</Email>