diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.14/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.14/default.nix
index 70a030e0308..dd4e7acf71f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.14/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.14/default.nix
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ let
 in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "perl-5.14.2";
+  name = "perl-5.14.4";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://cpan/src/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1ls8cpbgnlaxfydyyqgr7pxj1hkxh9pzcdgr3dv42zdxffakb234";
+    sha256 = "1js47zzna3v38fjnirf2vq6y0rjp8m86ysj5vagzgkig956d8gw0";
   };
 
   patches = 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.16/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.16/default.nix
index de2839e82ed..2e9540f0006 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.16/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.16/default.nix
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ let
 in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "perl-5.16.2";
+  name = "perl-5.16.3";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://cpan/src/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "03nh8bqnjsdd5izjv3n2yfcxw4ck0llwww36jpbjbjgixwpqpy4f";
+    sha256 = "1dpd9lhc4723wmsn4dsn4m320qlqgyw28bvcbhnfqp2nl3f0ikv9";
   };
 
   patches =
@@ -61,16 +61,18 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;
 
   doCheck = true;
+
   # some network-related tests don't work, mostly probably due to our sandboxing
   testsToSkip = ''
     lib/Net/hostent.t \
     dist/IO/t/{io_multihomed.t,io_sock.t} \
     t/porting/{maintainers.t,regen.t} \
     cpan/Socket/t/getnameinfo.t \
-  '' + stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.isFreeBSD) ''
+  '' + stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isFreeBSD ''
     cpan/CPANPLUS/t/04_CPANPLUS-Module.t \
     cpan/CPANPLUS/t/20_CPANPLUS-Dist-MM.t \
   '' + " ";
+
   postPatch = ''
     for test in ${testsToSkip}; do
       echo "Removing test" $test