diff --git a/perl-5.8.8-bz183553_ubz38657.patch b/perl-5.8.8-bz183553_ubz38657.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..232858f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perl-5.8.8-bz183553_ubz38657.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- perl-5.8.8/perl.c.bz183553_ubz38657	2006-02-27 12:51:49.000000000 -0500
++++ perl-5.8.8/perl.c	2006-03-01 17:18:41.000000000 -0500
+@@ -3110,7 +3110,7 @@
+ 		sv_catpv(sv, start);
+ 	    else {
+ 		sv_catpvn(sv, start, s-start);
+-		Perl_sv_catpvf(aTHX_ sv, " split(/,/,q%c%s%c)", 0, ++s, 0);
++		Perl_sv_catpvf(aTHX_ sv, " split(/,/,q(%s))", ++s);
+ 	    }
+ 	    s += strlen(s);
+ 	    my_setenv("PERL5DB", (char *)SvPV_nolen_const(sv));
diff --git a/perl-5.8.8-up27284.patch b/perl-5.8.8-up27284.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..59d2350
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perl-5.8.8-up27284.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+Change 27284 by nicholas@nicholas-saigo on 2006/02/23 14:49:22
+
+	Integrate:
+	[ 27002]
+	Code assumes that *FOO{SCALAR} will always return a scalar reference,
+	so make it so, creating $FOO if necessary.
+	(Effectively this is a policy decision that PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV is
+	visible to XS code, but isn't visible to Perl code)
+
+Affected files ...
+
+... //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pp.c#86 integrate
+... //depot/maint-5.8/perl/t/op/gv.t#4 integrate
+
+Differences ...
+
+==== //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pp.c#86 (text) ====
+Index: perl/pp.c
+--- perl/pp.c#85~26738~	2006-01-08 13:30:11.000000000 -0800
++++ perl/pp.c	2006-02-23 06:49:22.000000000 -0800
+@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@
+ 	    break;
+ 	case 'S':
+ 	    if (strEQ(second_letter, "CALAR"))
+-		tmpRef = GvSV(gv);
++		tmpRef = GvSVn(gv);
+ 	    break;
+ 	}
+     }
+
+==== //depot/maint-5.8/perl/t/op/gv.t#4 (xtext) ====
+Index: perl/t/op/gv.t
+--- perl/t/op/gv.t#3~25505~	2005-09-19 15:20:52.000000000 -0700
++++ perl/t/op/gv.t	2006-02-23 06:49:22.000000000 -0800
+@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
+ use warnings;
+ 
+ require './test.pl';
+-plan( tests => 61 );
++plan( tests => 63 );
+ 
+ # type coersion on assignment
+ $foo = 'foo';
+@@ -218,6 +218,19 @@
+     is ($x, "Rules\n");
+ }
+ 
++
++{
++    no warnings qw(once uninitialized);
++    my $g = \*clatter;
++    my $r = eval {no strict; ${*{$g}{SCALAR}}};
++    is ($@, '', "PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV shouldn't affect thingy syntax");
++
++    $g = \*vowm;
++    $r = eval {use strict; ${*{$g}{SCALAR}}};
++    is ($@, '',
++	"PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV shouldn't affect thingy syntax under strict");
++}
++
+ __END__
+ Perl
+ Rules
+End of Patch.
diff --git a/perl.spec b/perl.spec
index b2ed340..f6392de 100644
--- a/perl.spec
+++ b/perl.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 %define multilib_64_archs x86_64 s390x ppc64 sparc64
 
 %define perlver    5.8.8
-%define perlrel    3
+%define perlrel    4
 %define perlepoch  4
 
 %{?!perl_debugging:    %define perl_debugging 0}
@@ -150,6 +150,10 @@ Patch32:        perl-5.8.8-debian_fix_net_nntp.patch
 #
 # Upstream patches 27133 and 27169 (27170):
 Patch33: 	perl-5.8.8-up27133_up27169.patch
+# Upstream patch 27284:
+Patch34:	perl-5.8.8-up27284.patch
+# Fix for bug 183553 / upstream bug 38657:
+Patch35:	perl-5.8.8-bz183553_ubz38657.patch
 
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildRequires:  gawk, grep, tcsh, dos2unix, man, groff
@@ -326,6 +330,10 @@ more secure running of setuid perl scripts.
 
 %patch33 -p1
 
+%patch34 -p1
+
+%patch35 -p1
+
 # Candidates for doc recoding (need case by case review):
 # find . -name "*.pod" -o -name "README*" -o -name "*.pm" | xargs file -i | grep charset= | grep -v '\(us-ascii\|utf-8\)'
 recode()
@@ -534,6 +542,13 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 01 2006 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4:5.8.8-4
+- Fix bug 183553 / upstream bug 38657: fix -d:Foo=bar processing
+- rebuild with new gcc-4.1.0-1, released today
+
+* Mon Feb 27 2006 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com>
+- Apply upstream patch #28284
+
 * Mon Feb 13 2006 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 4:5.8.8-3
 - Apply upstream bugfix patch 27170