diff --git a/package/perl-extutils-helpers/perl-extutils-helpers.hash b/package/perl-extutils-helpers/perl-extutils-helpers.hash
index 3f80a96e6d..15c81df01e 100644
--- a/package/perl-extutils-helpers/perl-extutils-helpers.hash
+++ b/package/perl-extutils-helpers/perl-extutils-helpers.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# retrieved by scancpan from http://cpan.metacpan.org/
-md5  83b00c1e401321c425ae5db6b2b2fd12  ExtUtils-Helpers-0.026.tar.gz
-sha256  de901b6790a4557cf4ec908149e035783b125bf115eb9640feb1bc1c24c33416  ExtUtils-Helpers-0.026.tar.gz
+# retrieved by scancpan from https://cpan.metacpan.org/
+md5  0687f20ac896a7d01219646908ccdf89  ExtUtils-Helpers-0.028.tar.gz
+sha256  c8574875cce073e7dc5345a7b06d502e52044d68894f9160203fcaab379514fe  ExtUtils-Helpers-0.028.tar.gz
 
 # computed by scancpan
-sha256  e5530d0ebc8662df3a970644d867faf12760b1a95ca6e2bf1c5f9af410a418e0  LICENSE
+sha256  7de2a12de1b294281e50d260e6532d656473ad3e1be6bd4ef76ef7b4c21a898a  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/perl-extutils-helpers/perl-extutils-helpers.mk b/package/perl-extutils-helpers/perl-extutils-helpers.mk
index d3b14d88ce..2ac9ceec08 100644
--- a/package/perl-extutils-helpers/perl-extutils-helpers.mk
+++ b/package/perl-extutils-helpers/perl-extutils-helpers.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PERL_EXTUTILS_HELPERS_VERSION = 0.026
+PERL_EXTUTILS_HELPERS_VERSION = 0.028
 PERL_EXTUTILS_HELPERS_SOURCE = ExtUtils-Helpers-$(PERL_EXTUTILS_HELPERS_VERSION).tar.gz
 PERL_EXTUTILS_HELPERS_SITE = $(BR2_CPAN_MIRROR)/authors/id/L/LE/LEONT
 PERL_EXTUTILS_HELPERS_LICENSE = Artistic or GPL-1.0+