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diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index f7159e8df638..9d122cf248a0 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -6,6 +6,24 @@ You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each
 time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port
 upgrades.
 
+20040730:
+  AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8
+  AUTHOR: tobez@FreeBSD.org, mat@FreeBSD.org, marcus@FreeBSD.org
+
+  lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.5. you should update everything
+  depending on perl, that is:
+    * first, upgrade your perl5.8 installation.
+    * run "use.perl port", so that the system knows you have 5.8.5.
+    * now, run some magic incantations to upgrade all ports depending on perl,
+      that is run something like :
+      portupgrade -f `(pkg_info -R perl-5.8.5 |tail +4; \
+        find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.[124] -type f -print0 \
+        | xargs -0 pkg_which -fv | sed -e '/: ?/d' -e 's/.*: //')|sort -u`
+      This is likely to fail for a few ports, you'll have to upgrade them
+      afterwards.
+      Please note, that this last step is, strictly speaking, not necessary,
+      if you are upgrading from 5.8.4.  But it is cleaner to do so anyway.
+
 20040726:
   AFFECTS: users of devel/apache-ant
   AUTHOR: glewis@FreeBSD.org