diff --git a/templates/perl-URI/template b/templates/perl-URI/template
index 518d953056d..7eb4c7f38ae 100644
--- a/templates/perl-URI/template
+++ b/templates/perl-URI/template
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 # Template build file for 'perl-URI'.
 pkgname=perl-URI
-version=1.37
-revision=1
+version=1.40
 wrksrc="URI-$version"
-distfiles="${CPAN_SITE}/URI/URI-$version.tar.gz"
+distfiles="${CPAN_SITE}/URI/GAAS/URI-$version.tar.gz"
 build_style=perl_module
 short_desc="Perl Uniform Resource Identifiers class (URI, RFC 2396)"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-checksum=12b4c8a03ade0256de11b2c26e880854e1ea54703d3aebda7400fc27b45ebc2a
+checksum=7104e9c602083066967c6fbfd06c2648f839fedb866e9bc77ae6c263d3f42fbf
 long_desc="
   This package contains the URI.pm module with friends. The module
  implements the URI class. Objects of this class represent Uniform