Intructions for Updating CPAN: 1) update the changelog POD => navigate to the doc directory (or equivalent) => add a new version line (=head2) to the CHANGELOG.pd (or equivalent) => perform the update: pod2text CHANGELOG.pod >../CHANGELOG 2) modify the version number in main .pm 3) in the main folder: perl Makefile.PL make sudo make install (just if you want to install the update) 4) update code on git (or cvs) => commit, but alos be sure to use this command: git tag v*.* cvs -q tag V-*_* ...where *'s are version numbers 5) in the main folder: make dist 6) upload the .tar.gz (from make dist) to PAUSE Special Notes: You may want to update the other files in the Docs folder You may want to update the MANIFEST file to include any new files You may want to update the MakeFile.PL to add or remove any required dependencies