diff --git a/appendices/dependencies.xml b/appendices/dependencies.xml
index 46a016465..2aeef52e0 100644
--- a/appendices/dependencies.xml
+++ b/appendices/dependencies.xml
@@ -2402,7 +2402,7 @@
&testsuites;
- Iana-Etc and Procps-ng
+ Iana-Etc, Less. and Procps-ng
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 237a395a7..54ee42cea 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,17 @@
or as
appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
-->
+
+ 2021-07-17
+
+
+ [ken] - Fix test failures in perl-5.34.0 by building less before
+ perl and by patching perl for a problem highlighted by gdbm-1.20. Fixes
+ #4885.
+
+
+
+
2021-07-15
diff --git a/chapter03/patches.xml b/chapter03/patches.xml
index 803bf42bd..6ffd313a8 100644
--- a/chapter03/patches.xml
+++ b/chapter03/patches.xml
@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@
-->
+
+
+ Perl Upstream Fix Patch - &perl-fix-patch-size;:
+
+ Download:
+ MD5 sum: &perl-fix-patch-md5;
+
+
+
Sysvinit Consolidated Patch - &sysvinit-consolidated-patch-size;:
diff --git a/chapter08/chapter08.xml b/chapter08/chapter08.xml
index f45eb0d8f..397517f52 100644
--- a/chapter08/chapter08.xml
+++ b/chapter08/chapter08.xml
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
+
@@ -72,7 +73,6 @@
-
diff --git a/chapter08/perl.xml b/chapter08/perl.xml
index 276ed03e1..0bb32c344 100644
--- a/chapter08/perl.xml
+++ b/chapter08/perl.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@
Installation of Perl
+ First, apply a patch that fixes an issue highlighted by recent
+ versions of gdbm:
+
+patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-fix-patch;
+
This version of Perl now builds the Compress::Raw::Zlib and
Compress::Raw::BZip2 modules. By
default Perl will use an internal copy of the sources for the build.
diff --git a/patches.ent b/patches.ent
index 9858f94ca..f2e1a6730 100644
--- a/patches.ent
+++ b/patches.ent
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@
-->
+
+
+
+
+