diff --git a/perl-URI/PKGBUILD b/perl-URI/PKGBUILD
index aef7105a..5263ad54 100644
--- a/perl-URI/PKGBUILD
+++ b/perl-URI/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 _realname=URI
 pkgname=perl-${_realname}
-pkgver=1.68
+pkgver=1.73
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)"
 arch=('any')
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ depends=('perl>=5.10.0')
 provides=('perl-URI-Escape=3.30')
 options=('!emptydirs')
 source=("https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/${_realname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
-sha256sums=('c840d30f7657bfd4b2acbb311bd764232911cd3dc97e92415fbd0a242185c358')
+sha256sums=('cca7ab4a6f63f3ccaacae0f2e1337e8edf84137e73f18548ec7d659f23efe413')
 
 build() {
   cd "${srcdir}/${_realname}-$pkgver"