diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index daffb7d4c..b54f208cd 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>2012-11-03</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.6.2.  Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3218">#3218</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-4.2.39.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3217">#3217</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 40e63b4dd..09dc68b6e 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -419,10 +419,10 @@
 <!ENTITY patch-ch6-du "3.4 MB">
 <!ENTITY patch-ch6-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY perl-version "5.16.1">
-<!ENTITY perl-size "13,256 KB">
+<!ENTITY perl-version "5.16.2">
+<!ENTITY perl-size "13,403 KB">
 <!ENTITY perl-url "http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-&perl-version;.tar.bz2">
-<!ENTITY perl-md5 "b87358e2c461a898cfd7c334e7dd8993">
+<!ENTITY perl-md5 "2818ab01672f005a4e552a713aa27b08">
 <!ENTITY perl-home "http://www.perl.org/">
 <!ENTITY perl-ch5-du "237 MB">
 <!ENTITY perl-ch5-sbu "1.8 SBU">
diff --git a/patches.ent b/patches.ent
index ae9e2ecd5..fcf85f4d9 100644
--- a/patches.ent
+++ b/patches.ent
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 <!ENTITY make-fixes-patch-size "10 KB">
 
 
-<!ENTITY perl-libc-patch "perl-&perl-version;-libc-2.patch">
+<!ENTITY perl-libc-patch "perl-&perl-version;-libc-1.patch">
 <!ENTITY perl-libc-patch-md5 "daf5c64fd7311e924966842680535f8f">
 <!ENTITY perl-libc-patch-size "1.6 KB">