Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent	(revision ded8dfc0eaae8d78b97236ec54033dbfb4f2b2ff)
+++ general.ent	(revision ab9e22623334cf0a089ff87f459e714fcd4158a1)
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "31">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
-<!ENTITY month        "07">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "01">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY month        "08">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2017">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "July 31st &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "August 1st &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
Index: general/prog/perl-modules.xml
===================================================================
--- general/prog/perl-modules.xml	(revision ded8dfc0eaae8d78b97236ec54033dbfb4f2b2ff)
+++ general/prog/perl-modules.xml	(revision ab9e22623334cf0a089ff87f459e714fcd4158a1)
@@ -112,5 +112,5 @@
 
   <!ENTITY Text-BibTeX-download-http "http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AM/AMBS/Text-BibTeX-&Text-BibTeX-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY Text-BibTeX-md5sum "726df421c293f4b798d19f49bebb2ed2">
+  <!ENTITY Text-BibTeX-md5sum "a754759c80ab484c9f2b02b2fd4467c9">
 
   <!ENTITY Text-CSV-download-http "http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Text-CSV-&Text-CSV-version;.tar.gz">
@@ -130,5 +130,5 @@
 
   <!ENTITY URI-download-http "http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/URI-&URI-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY URI-md5sum "247c3da29a794f72730e01aa5a715daf">
+  <!ENTITY URI-md5sum "cd56d81ed429efaa97e7f3ff08851b48">
 
   <!ENTITY XML-LibXML-Simple-download-http "http://cpan.org/authors/id/G/GR/GRANTM/XML-LibXML-Simple-&XML-LibXML-Simple-version;.tar.gz">
@@ -636,6 +636,8 @@
               </listitem>
               <!-- Test::Fatal is pulled in to test Dist::CheckConflicts -->
-              <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Needs/">Test::Needs</ulink>
-(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Needs/)</literallayout>
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  <xref linkend="perl-test-needs"/>
+                </para>
               </listitem>
             </itemizedlist> <!-- end of Specio deps -->
@@ -1917,4 +1919,28 @@
     </itemizedlist>
 
+    <!-- Test::Needs is a dependency of multiple modules on this page
+         but it is not linked from other pages, so only give minimal details -->
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="perl-test-needs"
+    xreflabel="Test::Needs">
+    Test::Needs</bridgehead>
+
+    <indexterm zone="perl-modules perl-test-needs">
+      <primary sortas="a-Test-Needs">Test::Needs</primary>
+    </indexterm>
+
+    <para>The Test::Needs module skips tests when a module is not available.</para>
+
+    &lfs80_checked;
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Needs/">Test::Needs</ulink>
+(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Needs/)</literallayout>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
     <!-- Test::Requires is a dependency of multiple modules on this page
          but it is not linked from other pages, so only give minimal details -->
@@ -2219,4 +2245,11 @@
 <literallayout>&URI-download-http;
 MD5 sum: &URI-md5sum;</literallayout>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <xref linkend="perl-test-needs"/> (for the testsuite)
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision ded8dfc0eaae8d78b97236ec54033dbfb4f2b2ff)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision ab9e22623334cf0a089ff87f459e714fcd4158a1)
@@ -42,4 +42,18 @@
     </listitem>
 -->
+   <listitem>
+     <para>July 31st, 2017</para>
+     <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Update to Text::BibTeX-0.81 (perl module). Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;9504">#9504</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Update to URI-1.72 (perl module). Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;9527">#9527</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+     </itemizedlist>
+   </listitem>
+
    <listitem>
      <para>July 31st, 2017</para>
Index: packages.ent
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--- packages.ent	(revision ded8dfc0eaae8d78b97236ec54033dbfb4f2b2ff)
+++ packages.ent	(revision ab9e22623334cf0a089ff87f459e714fcd4158a1)
@@ -379,10 +379,10 @@
 <!ENTITY Test-Command-version         "0.11">
 <!ENTITY Test-Differences-version     "0.64">
-<!ENTITY Text-BibTeX-version          "0.80">
+<!ENTITY Text-BibTeX-version          "0.81">
 <!ENTITY Text-CSV-version             "1.95">
 <!ENTITY Text-Roman-version           "3.5">
 <!ENTITY Unicode-Collate-version      "1.19">
 <!ENTITY Unicode-LineBreak-version    "2017.004">
-<!ENTITY URI-version                  "1.71">
+<!ENTITY URI-version                  "1.72">
 <!ENTITY XML-LibXML-Simple-version    "0.97">
 <!ENTITY XML-LibXSLT-version          "1.95">
