diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index b6827f4cb62..0e2581b6a29 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -13002,11 +13002,11 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
     };
   };
 
-  URI = buildPerlPackage {
-    name = "URI-1.69";
+  "URI" = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "URI-1.71";
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/URI-1.69.tar.gz;
-      sha256 = "0bdlk1cn7ipy4kdylrn73yz9i2k39ikm1cqvh9hq0vvbcbm1cjxp";
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "9c8eca0d7f39e74bbc14706293e653b699238eeb1a7690cc9c136fb8c2644115";
     };
     meta = {
       description = "Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)";