diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index dd7266eca96b..12ba59967f61 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -3950,10 +3950,10 @@ let
   };
 
   DevelPatchPerl = buildPerlPackage rec {
-    name = "Devel-PatchPerl-1.52";
+    name = "Devel-PatchPerl-1.56";
     src = fetchurl {
       url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/B/BI/BINGOS/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0iynq3sgxyidr8d6x0gb1yk5nvzr7xmyslk2bs8hkp9sbxpznsaf";
+      sha256 = "1b97a6b82qh1dsv13rgxyiv4lffp360crgc9wiq3pyj0zr13nfc2";
     };
     propagatedBuildInputs = [ Filepushd ModulePluggable ];
     meta = {