diff --git a/perl/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/README b/perl/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/README
index c923a98194..e4ad02a502 100644
--- a/perl/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/README
+++ b/perl/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/README
@@ -7,11 +7,4 @@ full-featured SSL client or server application: multiple SSL contexts, cipher
 selection, certificate verification, and SSL version selection. As an extra
 bonus, it works perfectly with mod_perl.
 
-In order to use IO::Socket::SSL you need to have Net::SSLeay v1.21 or later,
-avalaible as Net-SSLeay from SlackBuilds.org.  This package as also an
-optional dependency on libwww-perl which can be installed from SlackBuilds.org
-as well.  Another optional dependency is on international domain names
-handling module, it's recommended to install either Net::IDN::Encode or
-Net::LibIDN. The latter is avalaible from SlackBuilds.org, if none of these
-are found found, however, the library will switch to internal name resolution
-routines (and prints out a big ugly WARNING at compile time ;-) ).
+libwww-perl is an optional dependency.
diff --git a/perl/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.SlackBuild b/perl/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.SlackBuild
index 30babeed6e..7b01b42b57 100644
--- a/perl/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.SlackBuild
+++ b/perl/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=perl-IO-Socket-SSL
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.54}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.76}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/perl/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.info b/perl/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.info
index b0e0896a17..42759998c6 100644
--- a/perl/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.info
+++ b/perl/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="perl-IO-Socket-SSL"
-VERSION="1.54"
-HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~sullr/IO-Socket-SSL-1.54/SSL.pm"
-DOWNLOAD="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SU/SULLR/IO-Socket-SSL-1.54.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="3d091d3de33a8ca2fe5f75172b1a329b"
+VERSION="1.76"
+HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~sullr/IO-Socket-SSL/SSL.pm"
+DOWNLOAD="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SU/SULLR/IO-Socket-SSL-1.76.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="27796a16df658aa3b3d2defd0fe3ac61"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-REQUIRES="Net-SSLeay libwww-perl"
+REQUIRES="Net-SSLeay perl-Net-LibIDN"
 MAINTAINER="Marco Bonetti"
 EMAIL="sid77@slackware.it"