diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index e80cc2de66f..9c2060bc45a 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ liblto_plugin.so.0 gcc-4.7.3_1
 libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc-4.4.0_1
 libgo.so.21 libgo-12.2.0_1
 libgccjit.so.0 libgccjit-10.2.1pre1_1
-libperl.so.5.36 perl-5.36.0_1
+libperl.so.5.38 perl-5.38.0_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/patches/fmt.diff b/srcpkgs/perl/patches/fmt.diff
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..439f101e7d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/perl/patches/fmt.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/pull/143
+
+diff --git a/cnf/configure_pfmt.sh b/cnf/configure_pfmt.sh
+index 8f93da1..3aa7731 100644
+--- a/cnf/configure_pfmt.sh
++++ b/cnf/configure_pfmt.sh
+@@ -52,3 +52,9 @@ else
+ 	define uvxformat '"lx"'
+ 	define uvXUformat '"lX"'
+ fi
++
++define i32dformat 'PRId32'
++define u32uformat 'PRIu32'
++define u32oformat 'PRIo32'
++define u32xformat 'PRIx32'
++define u32XUformat 'PRIX32'
diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl/template b/srcpkgs/perl/template
index d507855d3d1..2c7c5b51eff 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/perl/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/perl/template
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Template file for 'perl'
 pkgname=perl
-version=5.36.1
+version=5.38.0
 revision=1
-_perl_cross_version=1.4.1
+_perl_cross_version=1.5
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="less"
 makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel gdbm-devel db-devel"
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ 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="68203665d8ece02988fc77dc92fccbb297a83a4bb4b8d07558442f978da54cc1
- 3e14bb4f28c83586c668c5f9f6b4e57b138b4ec2fae0271086e29d4e352670ca"
+checksum="213ef58089d2f2c972ea353517dc60ec3656f050dcc027666e118b508423e517
+ d744a390939e2ebb9a12f6725b4d9c19255a141d90031eff90ea183fdfcbf211"
 
 skip_extraction=perl-cross-${_perl_cross_version}.tar.gz
 
@@ -24,120 +24,120 @@ skip_extraction=perl-cross-${_perl_cross_version}.tar.gz
 # to find the list of built in packages.
 
 provides="perl-Archive-Tar-2.40_1
- perl-Attribute-Handlers-1.02_1
+ perl-Attribute-Handlers-1.03_1
  perl-AutoLoader-5.74_1
- perl-CPAN-2.33_1
+ perl-CPAN-2.36_1
  perl-CPAN-Meta-2.150010_1
  perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements-2.140_1
  perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.018_1
- perl-Carp-1.52_1
- perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.103_1
- perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.105_1
- perl-Config-Perl-V-0.33_1
- perl-DB_File-1.857_1
- perl-Data-Dumper-2.184_1
- perl-Devel-PPPort-3.68_1
+ perl-Carp-1.54_1
+ perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.204.001_1
+ perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.204.001_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-Devel-SelfStubber-1.06_1
  perl-Digest-1.20_1
- perl-Digest-MD5-2.58_1
- perl-Digest-SHA-6.02_1
+ perl-Digest-MD5-2.58.01_1
+ perl-Digest-SHA-6.04_1
  perl-Dumpvalue-1.21_1
- perl-Encode-3.17_1
- perl-Env-1.05_1
+ perl-Encode-3.19_1
+ perl-Env-1.06_1
  perl-Exporter-5.77_1
- perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280236_1
+ perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280238_1
  perl-ExtUtils-Constant-0.25_1
- perl-ExtUtils-Install-2.20_1
- perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.64_1
+ perl-ExtUtils-Install-2.22_1
+ perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.70_1
  perl-ExtUtils-Manifest-1.73_1
- perl-ExtUtils-PL2Bat-0.004_1
- perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.45_1
+ perl-ExtUtils-PL2Bat-0.005_1
+ perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.51_1
  perl-File-Fetch-1.04_1
  perl-File-Path-2.18_1
  perl-File-Temp-0.2311_1
  perl-Filter-Simple-0.96_1
- perl-Filter-Util-Call-1.60_1
+ perl-Filter-Util-Call-1.64_1
  perl-FindBin-1.53_1
- perl-Getopt-Long-2.52_1
- perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.080_1
+ perl-Getopt-Long-2.54_1
+ perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.086_1
  perl-I18N-Collate-1.02_1
  perl-I18N-LangTags-0.45_1
- perl-IO-1.50_1
- perl-IO-Compress-2.106_1
- perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.41_1
- perl-IO-Zlib-1.11_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-IPC-Cmd-1.04_1
  perl-IPC-SysV-2.09_1
- perl-JSON-PP-4.07_1
- perl-Locale-Maketext-1.31_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_1
- perl-Math-BigInt-1.999830_1
- perl-Math-BigInt-FastCalc-0.5012_1
- perl-Math-BigRat-0.2621_1
- perl-Math-Complex-1.59.02_1
- perl-Memoize-1.03.01_1
- perl-Module-CoreList-5.20230423_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-Complex-1.62_1
+ perl-Memoize-1.16_1
+ perl-Module-CoreList-5.20230520_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-NEXT-0.69_1
- perl-Net-Ping-2.74_1
+ perl-Net-Ping-2.76_1
  perl-Params-Check-0.38_1
- perl-PathTools-3.84_1
+ perl-PathTools-3.89_1
  perl-Perl-OSType-1.010_1
- perl-PerlIO-via-QuotedPrint-0.09_1
- perl-Pod-Checker-1.74_1
+ perl-PerlIO-via-QuotedPrint-0.10_1
+ perl-Pod-Checker-1.75_1
  perl-Pod-Escapes-1.07_1
  perl-Pod-Perldoc-3.2801_1
  perl-Pod-Simple-3.43_1
- perl-Pod-Usage-2.01_1
- perl-Safe-2.43_1
- perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.62_1
+ perl-Pod-Usage-2.03_1
+ perl-Safe-2.44_1
+ perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.63_1
  perl-Search-Dict-1.07_1
  perl-SelfLoader-1.26_1
- perl-Socket-2.033_1
- perl-Storable-3.26_1
+ perl-Socket-2.036_1
+ perl-Storable-3.32_1
  perl-Sys-Syslog-0.36_1
  perl-Term-ANSIColor-5.01_1
- perl-Term-Cap-1.17_1
+ perl-Term-Cap-1.18_1
  perl-Term-Complete-1.403_1
  perl-Term-ReadLine-1.17_1
  perl-Test-1.31_1
  perl-Test-Harness-3.44_1
- perl-Test-Simple-1.302190_1
+ perl-Test-Simple-1.302194_1
  perl-Text-Abbrev-1.02_1
- perl-Text-Balanced-2.04_1
+ perl-Text-Balanced-2.06_1
  perl-Text-ParseWords-3.31_1
  perl-Text-Tabs-2021.0814_1
  perl-Thread-Queue-3.14_1
  perl-Thread-Semaphore-2.13_1
- perl-Tie-File-1.06_1
+ perl-Tie-File-1.07_1
  perl-Tie-RefHash-1.40_1
- perl-Time-HiRes-1.9770_1
+ perl-Time-HiRes-1.9775_1
  perl-Time-Local-1.30_1
- perl-Time-Piece-1.3401_1
+ perl-Time-Piece-1.3401.01_1
  perl-Unicode-Collate-1.31_1
- perl-Unicode-Normalize-1.31_1
+ perl-Unicode-Normalize-1.32_1
  perl-Win32-0.59_1
  perl-Win32API-File-0.1203.01_1
- perl-XSLoader-0.31_1
- perl-autodie-2.34_1
+ perl-XSLoader-0.32_1
+ perl-autodie-2.36_1
  perl-autouse-1.11_1
  perl-base-2.27_1
- perl-bignum-0.65_1
+ perl-bignum-0.66_1
  perl-constant-1.33_1
- perl-encoding-warnings-0.13_1
- perl-experimental-0.028_1
+ perl-encoding-warnings-0.14_1
+ perl-experimental-0.031_1
  perl-if-0.0610_1
  perl-lib-0.65_1
- perl-libnet-3.13_1
- perl-parent-0.238_1
+ perl-libnet-3.15_1
+ perl-parent-0.241_1
  perl-perlfaq-5.20210520_1
- perl-podlators-5.008_1
- perl-threads-2.27_1
- perl-threads-shared-1.64_1
+ perl-podlators-5.010_1
+ perl-threads-2.36_1
+ perl-threads-shared-1.68_1
  perl-version-0.9929_1"
 
 for f in ${provides}; do