diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl/patches/multiplicity.patch b/srcpkgs/perl/patches/multiplicity.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 976f9d38804..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/perl/patches/multiplicity.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-From a31a5cddd6c52fd21976b9cbff303b966c4a3122 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Alex Suykov <alex.suykov@gmail.com>
-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 17:50:03 +0300
-Subject: [PATCH] enable multiplicity whenever ithreads are enabled
-
----
- cnf/configure_misc.sh | 1 -
- cnf/configure_thrd.sh | 3 +++
- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/cnf/configure_misc.sh b/cnf/configure_misc.sh
-index 77d73b4..33b1834 100644
---- a/cnf/configure_misc.sh
-+++ b/cnf/configure_misc.sh
-@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ define usekernprocpathname 'undef'
- define uselongdouble 'undef'
- define usemallocwrap 'define'
- define usemorebits 'undef'
--define usemultiplicity 'undef'
- define usemymalloc 'n'
- define usenamedanoncv 'undef'
- define usenm 'false'
-diff --git a/cnf/configure_thrd.sh b/cnf/configure_thrd.sh
-index 6e63b68..8874a1d 100644
---- a/cnf/configure_thrd.sh
-+++ b/cnf/configure_thrd.sh
-@@ -14,9 +14,12 @@ if [ "$usethreads" = 'define' ]; then
- 		define use5005threads 'undef'
- 		result 'yes, ithreads'
- 	fi
-+
-+	define usemultiplicity "$useithreads"
- else
- 	define useithreads 'undef'
- 	define use5005threads 'undef'
-+	define usemultiplicity 'undef'
- 	result 'no'
- 	msg "Disabling thread-related stuff"
- fi
diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl/template b/srcpkgs/perl/template
index 3f897f995e7..d507855d3d1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/perl/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/perl/template
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Template file for 'perl'
 pkgname=perl
-version=5.36.0
+version=5.36.1
 revision=1
-_perl_cross_version=1.4
+_perl_cross_version=1.4.1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="less"
 makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel gdbm-devel db-devel"
@@ -14,13 +14,14 @@ license="Artistic-1.0-Perl, GPL-1.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://www.perl.org"
 distfiles="https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-${version}.tar.gz
  https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/releases/download/${_perl_cross_version}/perl-cross-${_perl_cross_version}.tar.gz"
-checksum="e26085af8ac396f62add8a533c3a0ea8c8497d836f0689347ac5abd7b7a4e00a
- be9d9f9f7148edff7a2f9695ba3cb7e3975eff6b25a9a81dd311725fd757aa91"
+checksum="68203665d8ece02988fc77dc92fccbb297a83a4bb4b8d07558442f978da54cc1
+ 3e14bb4f28c83586c668c5f9f6b4e57b138b4ec2fae0271086e29d4e352670ca"
 
 skip_extraction=perl-cross-${_perl_cross_version}.tar.gz
 
-# Before updating this package to a new major version, run ${FILESDIR}/provides.pl
-# against ${wrksrc} to find the list of built in packages.
+# Before updating this package to a new major version, run
+#   ${FILESDIR}/update-perl-provides.pl ${wrksrc} perl/template
+# to find the list of built in packages.
 
 provides="perl-Archive-Tar-2.40_1
  perl-Attribute-Handlers-1.02_1
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ provides="perl-Archive-Tar-2.40_1
  perl-Math-BigRat-0.2621_1
  perl-Math-Complex-1.59.02_1
  perl-Memoize-1.03.01_1
- perl-Module-CoreList-5.20220520_1
+ perl-Module-CoreList-5.20230423_1
  perl-Module-Load-0.36_1
  perl-Module-Load-Conditional-0.74_1
  perl-Module-Loaded-0.08_1