diff --git a/package/perl-file-listing/Config.in b/package/perl-file-listing/Config.in
index acca98be22..4610618542 100644
--- a/package/perl-file-listing/Config.in
+++ b/package/perl-file-listing/Config.in
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_FILE_LISTING
 	bool "perl-file-listing"
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_HTTP_DATE # runtime
 	help
-	  parse directory listing.
+	  Parse directory listing.
 
 	  https://metacpan.org/release/File-Listing
diff --git a/package/perl-file-listing/perl-file-listing.hash b/package/perl-file-listing/perl-file-listing.hash
index cb52c127cd..bd2ca473ba 100644
--- a/package/perl-file-listing/perl-file-listing.hash
+++ b/package/perl-file-listing/perl-file-listing.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# retrieved by scancpan from http://cpan.metacpan.org/
-md5  8ba34641a6c5a2ec1b0bf7064f68c535  File-Listing-6.15.tar.gz
-sha256  46c4fb9f9eb9635805e26b7ea55b54455e47302758a10ed2a0b92f392713770c  File-Listing-6.15.tar.gz
+# retrieved by scancpan from https://cpan.metacpan.org/
+md5  d4fc8b0c86633d1fa5bf75323720eadc  File-Listing-6.16.tar.gz
+sha256  189b3a13fc0a1ba412b9d9ec5901e9e5e444cc746b9f0156d4399370d33655c6  File-Listing-6.16.tar.gz
 
 # computed by scancpan
-sha256  287e6f0fdf2db790a24975b492cde64b210c16af7137f44373cbd03fcf844212  LICENSE
+sha256  330a553de82a111970d17fdf302bfe4af055f61bfe83d1c5617d5c3f5525a226  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/perl-file-listing/perl-file-listing.mk b/package/perl-file-listing/perl-file-listing.mk
index c8584ffa8a..583de605a4 100644
--- a/package/perl-file-listing/perl-file-listing.mk
+++ b/package/perl-file-listing/perl-file-listing.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PERL_FILE_LISTING_VERSION = 6.15
+PERL_FILE_LISTING_VERSION = 6.16
 PERL_FILE_LISTING_SOURCE = File-Listing-$(PERL_FILE_LISTING_VERSION).tar.gz
 PERL_FILE_LISTING_SITE = $(BR2_CPAN_MIRROR)/authors/id/P/PL/PLICEASE
 PERL_FILE_LISTING_LICENSE = Artistic or GPL-1.0+