diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index a6b26f6e9e9..37b5cc20add 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ liblto_plugin.so.0 gcc-4.7.3_1
 libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc-4.4.0_1
 libgo.so.22 libgo-13.2.0_1
 libgccjit.so.0 libgccjit-10.2.1pre1_1
-libperl.so.5.38 perl-5.38.0_1
+libperl.so.5.40 perl-5.40.1_1
 libgmp.so.10 gmp-5.0.1_1
 libgmpxx.so.4 gmpxx-6.0.0_2
 libmpfi.so.0 mpfi-1.5.3_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl/files/musl-locale.patch b/srcpkgs/perl/files/musl-locale.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dff892a0175
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/perl/files/musl-locale.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+--- perl-5.40/cnf/configure_misc.sh
++++ perl-5.40/cnf/configure_misc.sh
+@@ -240,11 +240,11 @@
+ define stdio_stream_array
+ define d_lc_monetary_2008 'undef'
+ 
+-define d_perl_lc_all_uses_name_value_pairs 'define'
+-define d_perl_lc_all_category_positions_init 'undef'
+-define d_perl_lc_all_separator 'undef'
+-define perl_lc_all_separator ''
+-define perl_lc_all_category_positions_init ''
++define d_perl_lc_all_uses_name_value_pairs 'undef'
++define d_perl_lc_all_category_positions_init 'define'
++define d_perl_lc_all_separator 'define'
++define perl_lc_all_separator '";"'
++define perl_lc_all_category_positions_init '{0,1,2,3,4,5}'
+ 
+ define sharpbang '#!'
+ define startperl "$sharpbang$perlpath"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl/files/update-perl-provides.pl b/srcpkgs/perl/files/update-perl-provides.pl
index cc3acb398da..12f07ea7537 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/perl/files/update-perl-provides.pl
+++ b/srcpkgs/perl/files/update-perl-provides.pl
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ sub scrape_verln
     my($srcpath) = @_;
     open my $fh, '<', $srcpath or die "open: $!";
     while(my $ln = <$fh>){
-        if($ln =~ s/^.*VERSION *=>? *//){
+        if($ln =~ s/^.*VERSION *=>? *// or $ln =~ s/^package .*? \K[\d.]+//){
             close $fh;
             return $ln;
         }
diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl/template b/srcpkgs/perl/template
index 010bda8cd3f..59aff74c512 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/perl/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/perl/template
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Template file for 'perl'
 pkgname=perl
-version=5.38.2
-revision=3
-_perl_cross_version=1.5.2
+version=5.40.1
+revision=1
+_perl_cross_version=1.6.1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel gdbm-devel db-devel"
 depends="less"
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ license="Artistic-1.0-Perl, GPL-1.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://www.perl.org"
 distfiles="https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-${version}.tar.gz
  https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/releases/download/${_perl_cross_version}/perl-cross-${_perl_cross_version}.tar.gz"
-checksum="a0a31534451eb7b83c7d6594a497543a54d488bc90ca00f5e34762577f40655e
- 584dc54c48dca25e032b676a15bef377c1fed9de318b4fc140292a5dbf326e90"
+checksum="02f8c45bb379ed0c3de7514fad48c714fd46be8f0b536bfd5320050165a1ee26
+ b5f4b4457bbd7be37adac8ee423beedbcdba8963a85f79770f5e701dabc5550f"
 
 skip_extraction=perl-cross-${_perl_cross_version}.tar.gz
 
@@ -27,33 +27,33 @@ fi
 #   ${FILESDIR}/update-perl-provides.pl ${wrksrc} perl/template
 # to find the list of built in packages.
 
-provides="perl-Archive-Tar-2.40_1
+provides="perl-Archive-Tar-3.02.001_1
  perl-Attribute-Handlers-1.03_1
  perl-AutoLoader-5.74_1
  perl-CPAN-2.36_1
  perl-CPAN-Meta-2.150010_1
- perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements-2.140_1
+ perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements-2.143_1
  perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.018_1
  perl-Carp-1.54_1
- perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.204.001_1
- perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.204.001_1
+ perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.212_1
+ perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.212_1
  perl-Config-Perl-V-0.36_1
- perl-DB_File-1.858_1
- perl-Data-Dumper-2.188_1
- perl-Devel-PPPort-3.71_1
+ perl-DB_File-1.859_1
+ perl-Data-Dumper-2.189_1
+ perl-Devel-PPPort-3.72_1
  perl-Devel-SelfStubber-1.06_1
  perl-Digest-1.20_1
  perl-Digest-MD5-2.58.01_1
  perl-Digest-SHA-6.04_1
  perl-Dumpvalue-1.21_1
- perl-Encode-3.19_1
+ perl-Encode-3.21_1
  perl-Env-1.06_1
- perl-Exporter-5.77_1
- perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280238_1
+ perl-Exporter-5.78_1
+ perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280240_1
  perl-ExtUtils-Constant-0.25_1
  perl-ExtUtils-Install-2.22_1
  perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.70_1
- perl-ExtUtils-Manifest-1.73_1
+ perl-ExtUtils-Manifest-1.75_1
  perl-ExtUtils-PL2Bat-0.005_1
  perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.51_1
  perl-File-Fetch-1.04_1
@@ -61,88 +61,89 @@ provides="perl-Archive-Tar-2.40_1
  perl-File-Temp-0.2311_1
  perl-Filter-Simple-0.96_1
  perl-Filter-Util-Call-1.64_1
- perl-FindBin-1.53_1
- perl-Getopt-Long-2.54_1
- perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.086_1
+ perl-FindBin-1.54_1
+ perl-Getopt-Long-2.57_1
+ perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.088_1
  perl-I18N-Collate-1.02_1
  perl-I18N-LangTags-0.45_1
- perl-IO-1.52_1
- perl-IO-Compress-2.204_1
- perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.41.01_1
- perl-IO-Zlib-1.14_1
+ perl-IO-1.55_1
+ perl-IO-Compress-2.212_1
+ perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.42_1
+ perl-IO-Zlib-1.15_1
  perl-IPC-Cmd-1.04_1
  perl-IPC-SysV-2.09_1
  perl-JSON-PP-4.16_1
  perl-Locale-Maketext-1.33_1
  perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.21.01_1
  perl-MIME-Base64-3.16.01_1
- perl-Math-BigInt-1.999837_1
- perl-Math-BigInt-FastCalc-0.5013_1
- perl-Math-BigRat-0.2624_1
+ perl-Math-BigInt-2.003002_1
+ perl-Math-BigInt-FastCalc-0.5018_1
  perl-Math-Complex-1.62_1
  perl-Memoize-1.16_1
- perl-Module-CoreList-5.20231125_1
+ perl-Module-CoreList-5.20250118.40_1
  perl-Module-Load-0.36_1
  perl-Module-Load-Conditional-0.74_1
  perl-Module-Loaded-0.08_1
- perl-Module-Metadata-1.000037_1
+ perl-Module-Metadata-1.000038_1
  perl-NEXT-0.69_1
  perl-Net-Ping-2.76_1
  perl-Params-Check-0.38_1
- perl-PathTools-3.89_1
+ perl-PathTools-3.91_1
  perl-Perl-OSType-1.010_1
  perl-PerlIO-via-QuotedPrint-0.10_1
- perl-Pod-Checker-1.75_1
+ perl-Pod-Checker-1.77_1
  perl-Pod-Escapes-1.07_1
  perl-Pod-Perldoc-3.2801_1
- perl-Pod-Simple-3.43_1
+ perl-Pod-Simple-3.45_1
  perl-Pod-Usage-2.03_1
- perl-Safe-2.44_1
+ perl-Safe-2.46_1
  perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.63_1
  perl-Search-Dict-1.07_1
- perl-SelfLoader-1.26_1
- perl-Socket-2.036_1
+ perl-SelfLoader-1.27_1
+ perl-Socket-2.038_1
  perl-Storable-3.32_1
  perl-Sys-Syslog-0.36_1
  perl-Term-ANSIColor-5.01_1
  perl-Term-Cap-1.18_1
  perl-Term-Complete-1.403_1
  perl-Term-ReadLine-1.17_1
+ perl-Term-Table-0.018_1
  perl-Test-1.31_1
- perl-Test-Harness-3.44_1
- perl-Test-Simple-1.302194_1
+ perl-Test-Harness-3.48_1
+ perl-Test-Simple-1.302199_1
+ perl-Test2-Suite-0.000162_1
  perl-Text-Abbrev-1.02_1
  perl-Text-Balanced-2.06_1
  perl-Text-ParseWords-3.31_1
- perl-Text-Tabs-2021.0814_1
+ perl-Text-Tabs-2024.001_1
  perl-Thread-Queue-3.14_1
  perl-Thread-Semaphore-2.13_1
- perl-Tie-File-1.07_1
+ perl-Tie-File-1.09_1
  perl-Tie-RefHash-1.40_1
- perl-Time-HiRes-1.9775_1
- perl-Time-Local-1.30_1
+ perl-Time-HiRes-1.9777_1
+ perl-Time-Local-1.35_1
  perl-Time-Piece-1.3401.01_1
  perl-Unicode-Collate-1.31_1
  perl-Unicode-Normalize-1.32_1
  perl-Win32-0.59_1
  perl-Win32API-File-0.1203.01_1
  perl-XSLoader-0.32_1
- perl-autodie-2.36_1
+ perl-autodie-2.37_1
  perl-autouse-1.11_1
  perl-base-2.27_1
- perl-bignum-0.66_1
+ perl-bignum-0.67_1
  perl-constant-1.33_1
  perl-encoding-warnings-0.14_1
- perl-experimental-0.031_1
+ perl-experimental-0.032_1
  perl-if-0.0610_1
  perl-lib-0.65_1
  perl-libnet-3.15_1
  perl-parent-0.241_1
- perl-perlfaq-5.20210520_1
+ perl-perlfaq-5.20240218_1
  perl-podlators-5.010_1
- perl-threads-2.36_1
- perl-threads-shared-1.68_1
- perl-version-0.9929_1"
+ perl-threads-2.40_1
+ perl-threads-shared-1.69_1
+ perl-version-0.9930_1"
 
 for f in ${provides}; do
 	replaces+=" $($XBPS_UHELPER_CMD getpkgname ${f})>=0"
@@ -153,6 +154,10 @@ post_extract() {
 	$TAR --strip-components=1 -xf \
 		${XBPS_SRCDISTDIR}/${pkgname}-${version}/perl-cross-$_perl_cross_version.tar.gz
 
+	if [ "$XBPS_TARGET_LIBC" = "musl" ]; then
+		patch -p1 < ${FILESDIR}/musl-locale.patch
+	fi
+
 	[ -n "${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}" ] && touch -h -d @$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH patchlevel.h
 }
 
@@ -187,6 +192,7 @@ do_configure() {
 
 	export LD="$CC"
 	./configure --prefix=/usr $_args \
+		--host-use-threads \
 		-Dcccdlflags="-fPIC" \
 		-Doptimize=" -Wall ${CFLAGS} " -Dccflags=" ${CFLAGS} " \
 		-Dlddlflags="-shared ${LDFLAGS}" -Dldflags="${LDFLAGS}" \