diff --git a/textproc/p5-XML-Reader/Makefile b/textproc/p5-XML-Reader/Makefile
index 20a2f7a0e10b..9d11ea9bc5c7 100644
--- a/textproc/p5-XML-Reader/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/p5-XML-Reader/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-# Created by: Wen Heping <wen@FreeBSD.org>
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	XML-Reader
-PORTVERSION=	0.51
+PORTVERSION=	0.53
 CATEGORIES=	textproc perl5
 MASTER_SITES=	CPAN
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
diff --git a/textproc/p5-XML-Reader/distinfo b/textproc/p5-XML-Reader/distinfo
index bcc75d2c830d..dfce0a8be184 100644
--- a/textproc/p5-XML-Reader/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/p5-XML-Reader/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA256 (XML-Reader-0.51.tar.gz) = ccdc90d15c88ae8f6052405e5a9e53d7ddafcb4ad4a7430b1a40e2ac5fcf6448
-SIZE (XML-Reader-0.51.tar.gz) = 69873
+SHA256 (XML-Reader-0.53.tar.gz) = a459cc6c28ad375ecbdd43eafc7c8eef00487da047fab924a9af0d344e7ae71d
+SIZE (XML-Reader-0.53.tar.gz) = 69985