diff --git a/general/prog/perl-modules.xml b/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
index 07b97502f2..8e32ea9da7 100644
--- a/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
+++ b/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
   <!ENTITY List-MoreUtils-md5sum "0c5c4650eb52ed58cac67d81be1004f3">
 
   <!ENTITY Log-Log4perl-download-http "http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHILLI/Log-Log4perl-&Log-Log4perl-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY Log-Log4perl-md5sum "53a0a2e68da51fa445c3557e4852d3a4">
+  <!ENTITY Log-Log4perl-md5sum "3ebac0d6451886018857c9965f7726ed">
 
   <!ENTITY LWP-Protocol-https-download-http "http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHILLI/LWP-Protocol-https-&LWP-Protocol-https-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY LWP-Protocol-https-md5sum "06f5dfd33b07f6594a429dbbd5e6a2d1">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index b2bec056b0..3193180305 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>November 19th, 2016</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to perl module Log::Log4perl-1.48. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;8538">#8538</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to xorg-server-1.19.0. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;8534">#8534</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index ce5298f416..c7603eeaa9 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
 <!ENTITY Lingua-Translit-version      "0.26">
 <!ENTITY List-AllUtils-version        "0.12">
 <!ENTITY List-MoreUtils-version       "0.416">
-<!ENTITY Log-Log4perl-version         "1.47">
+<!ENTITY Log-Log4perl-version         "1.48">
 <!ENTITY LWP-version                  "6.15">
 <!ENTITY LWP-Protocol-https-version   "6.06">
 <!ENTITY Module-Build-version         "0.4220">