diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index b09b27e6afeb..3435bc1193af 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -8508,11 +8508,11 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
     };
   };
 
-  PerlCritic = buildPerlModule {
-    name = "Perl-Critic-1.125";
+  PerlCritic = buildPerlModule rec {
+    name = "Perl-Critic-1.126";
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/T/TH/THALJEF/Perl-Critic-1.125.tar.gz;
-      sha256 = "503b718356b14d4c00ed486b66a0f622f4bef2b206be406ee7922c8270463fa1";
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/T/TH/THALJEF/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "b1a6151cb3603aef8555195b807e831655c83003b81e2f64fff095ff7114f5af";
     };
     buildInputs = [ TestDeep ];
     propagatedBuildInputs = [ BKeywords ConfigTiny EmailAddress ExceptionClass FileHomeDir FileWhich IOString ListMoreUtils ModulePluggable PPI PPIxRegexp PPIxUtilities PerlTidy PodSpell Readonly StringFormat TaskWeaken ];