diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index d2cf841390..25f685fde7 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
 <!ENTITY Test-Builder-Tester-version  "1.01">
 <!ENTITY Test-Pod-version             "1.22">
 <!ENTITY Test-Pod-Coverage-version    "1.06">
-<!ENTITY Test-Prereq-version          "1.028">
+<!ENTITY Test-Prereq-version          "1.030">
 <!ENTITY Test-Simple-version          "0.62">
 <!ENTITY Text-CSV_XS-version          "0.23">
 <!ENTITY Text-Diff-version            "0.35">
diff --git a/general/prog/perl-modules.xml b/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
index 3bec0a3427..3bea871e38 100644
--- a/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
+++ b/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
@@ -438,7 +438,10 @@
                       <listitem>
                         <para id="perl-test-prereq"><ulink
                         url="http://cpan.org/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/Test-Prereq-&Test-Prereq-version;.tar.gz">
-                        Test-Prereq-&Test-Prereq-version;</ulink></para>
+                        Test-Prereq-&Test-Prereq-version;</ulink> (you may need
+                        to set up your CPAN access parameters by issuing the
+                        command <command>perl -MCPAN -e shell</command> before
+                        running the test suite, else the tests may hang)</para>
                         <indexterm zone="perl-modules perl-test-prereq">
                           <primary sortas="g-Test-Prereq">Test::Prereq</primary>
                         </indexterm>
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 08fc941cb9..f02bf15bc4 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>April 19th, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[randy] - Updated to Test::Prereq-1.030.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[randy] - Updated to Module::CoreList-2.04.</para>
         </listitem>