diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 58fa69fe9..4c8941aea 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>2017-09-23</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.26.1.  Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4141">#4141</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Add Meson-0.42.1.</para>
         </listitem>
diff --git a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
index 9faf53bad..ec706562e 100644
--- a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
+++ b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
@@ -182,9 +182,9 @@
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Patch-&patch-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Perl-&perl-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Pkg-config-&pkgconfig-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
diff --git a/chapter05/perl.xml b/chapter05/perl.xml
index 77d18a8d6..14858b17b 100644
--- a/chapter05/perl.xml
+++ b/chapter05/perl.xml
@@ -43,12 +43,6 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Perl</title>
 
-    <para>First, fix a build issue that arises only in the LFS environment:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e '9751 a#ifndef PERL_IN_XSUB_RE' \
-    -e '9808 a#endif'                  \
-    -i regexec.c</userinput></screen>
-
     <para>Prepare Perl for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">sh Configure -des -Dprefix=/tools -Dlibs=-lm</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index e769b38ba..3ce8c242b 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -514,10 +514,10 @@
 <!ENTITY patch-ch6-du "11 MB">
 <!ENTITY patch-ch6-sbu "0.2 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY perl-version "5.26.0">
-<!ENTITY perl-size "11,682 KB">
+<!ENTITY perl-version "5.26.1">
+<!ENTITY perl-size "11,644 KB">
 <!ENTITY perl-url "http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-&perl-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY perl-md5 "8c6995718e4cb62188f0d5e3488cd91f">
+<!ENTITY perl-md5 "70e988b4318739b0cf3ad5e120bfde88">
 <!ENTITY perl-home "http://www.perl.org/">
 <!ENTITY perl-ch5-du "261 MB">
 <!ENTITY perl-ch5-sbu "1.3 SBU">