diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 81bcc1a..9ae28cf 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Changes for Perl extension DBD-SQLite.
 
+    - require perl 5.6 because dependencies require it
+
 1.19_08 Sat  4 Apr 2009
     - Bumped minimum DBI dependency to 1.43 so last_insert_id is supported
       in DBI (ADAMK)
@@ -12,7 +14,7 @@ Changes for Perl extension DBD-SQLite.
       test (ADAMK)
     - Resolved #9792: Crashes upon re-executing a statement (ADAMK)
     - Resolved #21472: Spurious "not an error" and "bind or column index
-      out of range" errirs (MSERGEANT)
+      out of range" errors (MSERGEANT)
     - Resolved #32723: last_insert_rowid should handle sqlite_int64,
       not int (ADAMK)
     - Resolved #37215: memory leaks in sqlite_db_disconnect (ADAMK)
diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 46fb2d4..dc3273e 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use 5.00503;
+use 5.006; #from ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.48 and DBI 1.43
 use strict;
 use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
 use Config;
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ WriteMakefile(
 		'Test::More' => '0.42',
 	},
 	OPTIONAL( '6.48',
-		MIN_PERL_VERSION => '5.00503',
+		MIN_PERL_VERSION => '5.006',
 	),
 	OPTIONAL( '6.31',
 		LICENSE => 'perl',