diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/README b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/README
index 2419ae2..c519dff 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/README
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/README
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
         1) vim local.conf:
         ...
-        IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " libdbd-sqlite-perl"
+        IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " libdbd-sqlite-perl"
         PERL_DBM_TEST = "1"
         ...
         2) build core-image-sato and boot the target
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/conf/layer.conf b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/conf/layer.conf
index 87bb91f..6a2dd7f 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/conf/layer.conf
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/conf/layer.conf
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
 
 LAYERDEPENDS_perl-layer = "core openembedded-layer"
 
-LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_perl-layer = " hardknott"
+LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_perl-layer = "honister"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-extended/logcheck/logcheck_1.3.23.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-extended/logcheck/logcheck_1.3.23.bb
index bb9faa2..38ef0f8 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-extended/logcheck/logcheck_1.3.23.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-extended/logcheck/logcheck_1.3.23.bb
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@
 inherit useradd
 
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "-m -g ${BPN} -G adm -r -d ${localstatedir}/lib/${BPN} \
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "-m -g ${BPN} -G adm -r -d ${localstatedir}/lib/${BPN} \
                        -s /bin/false -c 'logcheck account' ${BPN}"
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "-r ${BPN}"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "-r ${BPN}"
 
 do_install() {
     # Fix QA Issue
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 
 VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_syslog ??= "rsyslog"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
     bash \
     cronie \
     debianutils-run-parts \
@@ -76,4 +76,4 @@
     ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_syslog} \
 "
 
-FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/logtail"
+FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}/logtail"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-extended/mime-construct/mime-construct_1.11.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-extended/mime-construct/mime-construct_1.11.bb
index 2516fbf..2919904 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-extended/mime-construct/mime-construct_1.11.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-extended/mime-construct/mime-construct_1.11.bb
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libmime-types-perl libproc-waitstat-perl msmtp \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "libmime-types-perl libproc-waitstat-perl msmtp \
     perl-module-filehandle perl-module-mime-base64 perl-module-mime-quotedprint perl-module-posix \
 "
 
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    #change the interpreter in file
    sed -i -e "s|${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/perl-native/perl -w|${bindir}/env perl|g" \
       ${D}/${bindir}/mime-construct
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/adduser/adduser_3.118.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/adduser/adduser_3.118.bb
index 80cf142..7554014 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/adduser/adduser_3.118.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/adduser/adduser_3.118.bb
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
     cp -rf ${S}/examples ${D}${docdir}/${BPN}
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
     shadow \
     perl-module-getopt-long \
     perl-module-overloading \
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
     perl-module-file-temp \
 "
 
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "adduser deluser addgroup delgroup"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "adduser deluser addgroup delgroup"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "60"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[adduser] = "${sbindir}/adduser"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[deluser] = "${sbindir}/deluser"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libauthen/libauthen-radius-perl_0.22.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libauthen/libauthen-radius-perl_0.22.bb
index 7118dc0..ee7c4d7 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libauthen/libauthen-radius-perl_0.22.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libauthen/libauthen-radius-perl_0.22.bb
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@
     install -m 0755 ${S}/test.pl ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
     libdata-hexdump-perl \
     perl-module-digest-md5 \
     perl-module-data-dumper \
     perl-module-io-select \
     perl-module-io-socket \
 "
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'freeradius', '', d)} \
 "
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libauthen/libauthen-sasl-perl_2.16.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libauthen/libauthen-sasl-perl_2.16.bb
index c75deb0..4212dd2 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libauthen/libauthen-sasl-perl_2.16.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libauthen/libauthen-sasl-perl_2.16.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://lib/Authen/SASL/Perl.pm;beginline=1;endline=3;md5=17123315bbcda19f484c07227594a609"
 
 DEPENDS = "perl"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "libdigest-hmac-perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "libdigest-hmac-perl"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Authen-SASL-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://run-ptest \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcapture/libcapture-tiny-perl_0.48.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcapture/libcapture-tiny-perl_0.48.bb
index 3b3e31d..3585131 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcapture/libcapture-tiny-perl_0.48.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcapture/libcapture-tiny-perl_0.48.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " \
     perl-module-carp \
     perl-module-exporter \
     perl-module-extutils-makemaker \
@@ -40,6 +40,6 @@
     perl-module-warnings \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-perlio"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-perlio"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcgi/libcgi-perl_4.53.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcgi/libcgi-perl_4.53.bb
index 2f1a860..04bc362 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcgi/libcgi-perl_4.53.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcgi/libcgi-perl_4.53.bb
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
     libhtml-parser-perl \
     perl-module-base \
     perl-module-deprecate \
     perl-module-if \
 "
 
-do_install_prepend() {
+do_install:prepend() {
     # requires "-T" (taint) command line option
     rm -rf ${B}/t/push.t
     rm -rf ${B}/t/utf8.t
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     rm -rf ${B}/t/compiles_pod.t
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     libtest-deep-perl \
     libtest-warn-perl \
     perl-module-bytes \
@@ -45,6 +45,6 @@
     perl-module-utf8 \
 "
 
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "perl-module-cgi"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "perl-module-cgi"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libclass/libclass-method-modifiers-perl_2.13.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libclass/libclass-method-modifiers-perl_2.13.bb
index 58ed37c..dc62f58 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libclass/libclass-method-modifiers-perl_2.13.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libclass/libclass-method-modifiers-perl_2.13.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " perl-module-b \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " perl-module-b \
                    perl-module-base \
                    perl-module-carp \
                    perl-module-exporter \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libconfig/libconfig-autoconf-perl_0.319.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libconfig/libconfig-autoconf-perl_0.319.bb
index 38598e2..ea9dfed 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libconfig/libconfig-autoconf-perl_0.319.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libconfig/libconfig-autoconf-perl_0.319.bb
@@ -18,21 +18,21 @@
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "eeeab8cc93eef7dd2e2c343ecdf247b7"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "304f66cc2653264c0fe127d21669e86d3d18cd72f2574d8f5131beec31a0a33e"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libcapture-tiny-perl"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-base"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-carp"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-config"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-constant"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-file-basename"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-file-spec"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-file-temp"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-extutils-cbuilder"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-extutils-cbuilder-platform-unix"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-scalar-util"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-strict"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-text-parsewords"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-warnings"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "libfile-slurper-perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "libcapture-tiny-perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-base"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-carp"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-config"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-constant"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-file-basename"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-file-spec"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-file-temp"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-extutils-cbuilder"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-extutils-cbuilder-platform-unix"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-scalar-util"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-strict"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-text-parsewords"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-warnings"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "libfile-slurper-perl"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/Config-AutoConf-${PV}"
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcrypt/libcrypt-openssl-guess-perl_0.13.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcrypt/libcrypt-openssl-guess-perl_0.13.bb
index b0a1937..7bce621 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcrypt/libcrypt-openssl-guess-perl_0.13.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcrypt/libcrypt-openssl-guess-perl_0.13.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 DEPENDS += "openssl"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
     perl-module-config \
     perl-module-exporter \
     perl-module-extutils-mm \
@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@
 # for backwards compatibility
 PROVIDES_${PN} += "libcrypt-openssl-guess"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "\
     perl-module-test-more \
 "
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcrypt/libcrypt-openssl-random-perl_0.15.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcrypt/libcrypt-openssl-random-perl_0.15.bb
index a2ebb8c..5b6e9b4 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcrypt/libcrypt-openssl-random-perl_0.15.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcrypt/libcrypt-openssl-random-perl_0.15.bb
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
     perl-module-exporter \
     perl-module-strict \
     perl-module-vars \
     perl-module-xsloader \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "\
     perl-module-file-copy \
     perl-module-test-more \
 "
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcrypt/libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl_0.31.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcrypt/libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl_0.31.bb
index 68d921c..9a42b52 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcrypt/libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl_0.31.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcrypt/libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl_0.31.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 DEPENDS += "libcrypt-openssl-guess-perl-native openssl"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " \
     libcrypt-openssl-random-perl \
     perl-module-autoloader \
     perl-module-carp \
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     cpan_do_compile
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest = " \
     ${PN} \
     perl-module-file-copy \
     perl-module-test \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcurses/libcurses-perl_1.37.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcurses/libcurses-perl_1.38.bb
similarity index 80%
rename from meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcurses/libcurses-perl_1.37.bb
rename to meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcurses/libcurses-perl_1.38.bb
index 17fbbae..a398382 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcurses/libcurses-perl_1.37.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libcurses/libcurses-perl_1.38.bb
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@
 
 SRC_URI = "http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GI/GIRAFFED/Curses-${PV}.tar.gz"
 
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "aede9d1ed9856eff89f4ce208ee59de0"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "74707ae3ad19b35bbefda2b1d6bd31f57b40cdac8ab872171c8714c88954db20"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "d521408298eb6413b209ef29d4ffcba6f5f58ee1abc60160739a17aafcb8f2f2"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/Curses-${PV}"
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdata/libdata-hexdump-perl_0.02.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdata/libdata-hexdump-perl_0.02.bb
index 44c651c..4493a7e 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdata/libdata-hexdump-perl_0.02.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdata/libdata-hexdump-perl_0.02.bb
@@ -33,6 +33,6 @@
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
 
 ALTERNATIVES_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "hexdump"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "hexdump"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[hexdump] = "${bindir}/hexdump"
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdb/libdbd-sqlite-perl_1.66.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdb/libdbd-sqlite-perl_1.68.bb
similarity index 85%
rename from meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdb/libdbd-sqlite-perl_1.66.bb
rename to meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdb/libdbd-sqlite-perl_1.68.bb
index aef1d34..c328696 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdb/libdbd-sqlite-perl_1.66.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdb/libdbd-sqlite-perl_1.68.bb
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@
            file://sqlite-perl-test.pl \
 "
 
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "38581209de5c981f0e79840c8937fa16"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "89e75dff9f66c273e0e459d51f151f88960eb7d82e2821e6902f18688ba592fe"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0e84e831a50d547d2e634b66650455f1791f223495c9138db82d42360c691e61"
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "DBD\-SQLite\-(?P<pver>(\d+\.\d+))(?!_\d+).tar"
 
@@ -25,14 +24,14 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libdbi-perl \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "libdbi-perl \
 		   sqlite3 \
 		   perl-module-constant \
 		   perl-module-locale \
 		   perl-module-tie-hash \
 "
 
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
     if [ ${PERL_DBM_TEST} = "1" ]; then
         install -m 755 -D ${WORKDIR}/sqlite-perl-test.pl ${D}/${bindir}/sqlite-perl-test.pl
     fi
@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@
 	chown -R root:root ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     libtest-nowarnings-perl \
     perl-module-lib \
     perl-module-encode \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdevel/libdevel-globaldestruction-perl_0.14.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdevel/libdevel-globaldestruction-perl_0.14.bb
index 0ce2424..9f9950e 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdevel/libdevel-globaldestruction-perl_0.14.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdevel/libdevel-globaldestruction-perl_0.14.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " libsub-exporter-progressive-perl \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " libsub-exporter-progressive-perl \
 "
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdigest/libdigest-hmac-perl_1.03.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdigest/libdigest-hmac-perl_1.03.bb
index 8f1c98c..10b4d6e 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdigest/libdigest-hmac-perl_1.03.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdigest/libdigest-hmac-perl_1.03.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0|GPLv1+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=13;endline=17;md5=da980cdc026faa065e5d5004115334e6"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "libdigest-sha1-perl perl-module-extutils-makemaker perl-module-digest-md5"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "libdigest-sha1-perl perl-module-extutils-makemaker perl-module-digest-md5"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/Digest-HMAC-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://run-ptest \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdigest/libdigest-sha1-perl_2.13.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdigest/libdigest-sha1-perl_2.13.bb
index 0371ea6..91c5f08 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdigest/libdigest-sha1-perl_2.13.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdigest/libdigest-sha1-perl_2.13.bb
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND="native"
 
-FILES_${PN}-dbg =+ "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/Digest/SHA1/.debug/"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg =+ "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/Digest/SHA1/.debug/"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libencode/libencode-locale-perl_1.05.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libencode/libencode-locale-perl_1.05.bb
index 748f746..700974b 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libencode/libencode-locale-perl_1.05.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libencode/libencode-locale-perl_1.05.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libencode-perl \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "libencode-perl \
                    libencode-alias-perl \
                    perl-module-base \
 "
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libencode/libencode-perl_3.10.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libencode/libencode-perl_3.11.bb
similarity index 91%
rename from meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libencode/libencode-perl_3.10.bb
rename to meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libencode/libencode-perl_3.11.bb
index 94f5a08..f1d44b3 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libencode/libencode-perl_3.10.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libencode/libencode-perl_3.11.bb
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://META.json;beginline=8;endline=10;md5=b12e3be1e17a7e99ca4f429ff32c28b5"
 
 SRC_URI = "${CPAN_MIRROR}/authors/id/D/DA/DANKOGAI/Encode-${PV}.tar.gz"
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "7377c8694a7afeeaa46ee035d0d7335c"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "c2d7906af17664d6b6f16bf76572c95c16c30ad096b7dd980c08c3de33e319a9"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "47e05cefb550ef039808564e6181a22dbf2e50d0475f8eb9de63f9d9f4912e7c"
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "Encode\-(?P<pver>(\d+\.\d+))(?!_\d+).tar"
 
@@ -24,7 +23,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-do_install_prepend() {
+do_install:prepend() {
     # Requires "-T" (taint) option on command line
     rm -rf ${B}/t/taint.t
     # Circular dependency of perl-module-open on perl-module-encode
@@ -43,9 +42,9 @@
 #  file /usr/bin/enc2xs from install of perl-misc-5.24.1-r0.i586 conflicts with file from package libencode-perl-2.94-r0.i586
 #  file /usr/bin/encguess from install of perl-misc-5.24.1-r0.i586 conflicts with file from package libencode-perl-2.94-r0.i586
 #  file /usr/bin/piconv from install of perl-misc-5.24.1-r0.i586 conflicts with file from package libencode-perl-2.94-r0.i586
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "perl-misc perl-module-encode"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "perl-misc perl-module-encode"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
     perl-module-bytes \
     perl-module-constant \
     perl-module-parent \
@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@
     perl-module-xsloader \
     "
 
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += " \
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += " \
     libencode-alias-perl \
     libencode-byte-perl \
     libencode-cjkconstants-perl \
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@
     libencode-utf_ebcdic-perl \
     "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     perl-module-blib \
     perl-module-charnames \
     perl-module-file-compare \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-config-perl_0.008.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-config-perl_0.008.bb
index 7e1418d..bc54634 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-config-perl_0.008.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-config-perl_0.008.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " perl-module-extutils-makemaker \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " perl-module-extutils-makemaker \
                    perl-module-data-dumper \
 		   perl-module-ipc-open3 \
                    perl-module-test-more \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-cppguess-perl_0.23.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-cppguess-perl_0.23.bb
index 876b75c..5e869c8 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-cppguess-perl_0.23.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-cppguess-perl_0.23.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
         cpan_do_install
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " libcapture-tiny-perl \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " libcapture-tiny-perl \
                    perl-module-scalar-util \
                    perl-module-io-file \
                    perl-module-extutils-makemaker \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-helpers-perl_0.026.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-helpers-perl_0.026.bb
index c027250..3538e11 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-helpers-perl_0.026.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-helpers-perl_0.026.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " perl-module-file-copy \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " perl-module-file-copy \
                    perl-module-extutils-makemaker \
                    perl-module-exporter \
                    perl-module-carp \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-installpaths-perl_0.012.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-installpaths-perl_0.012.bb
index 2da5e3b..de3a745 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-installpaths-perl_0.012.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-installpaths-perl_0.012.bb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " \
     libextutils-config-perl \
     perl-module-bytes \
     perl-module-data-dumper \
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     perl-module-test-more \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest = " \
     ${PN} \
     perl-module-file-spec-functions \
     perl-module-test-more \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-parsexs-perl_3.35.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-parsexs-perl_3.35.bb
index f57e122..e603490 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-parsexs-perl_3.35.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libextutils/libextutils-parsexs-perl_3.35.bb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " perl-module-carp \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " perl-module-carp \
     perl-module-cwd \
     perl-module-dynaloader \
     perl-module-extutils-cbuilder \
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     perl-module-test-more \
 "
 
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += " libextutils-parsexs-constants-perl \
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += " libextutils-parsexs-constants-perl \
     libextutils-parsexs-countlines-perl \
     libextutils-parsexs-eval-perl \
     libextutils-parsexs-utilities-perl \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libfile/libfile-slurper-perl_0.012.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libfile/libfile-slurper-perl_0.012.bb
index 415652c..4a2cb73 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libfile/libfile-slurper-perl_0.012.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libfile/libfile-slurper-perl_0.012.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "5742c63096392dfee50b8db314bcca18"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "4efb2ea416b110a1bda6f8133549cc6ea3676402e3caf7529fce0313250aa578"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " \
     perl-module-carp \
     perl-module-encode \
     perl-module-exporter \
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     perl-module-warnings \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "libtest-warnings-perl \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "libtest-warnings-perl \
     perl-module-test-more \
     "
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libhtml/libhtml-parser-perl_3.72.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libhtml/libhtml-parser-perl_3.72.bb
index a4c69c9..38ea9ce 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libhtml/libhtml-parser-perl_3.72.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libhtml/libhtml-parser-perl_3.72.bb
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     cpan_do_compile
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
     perl-module-exporter \
     perl-module-strict \
     perl-module-vars \
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     libhtml-tagset-perl \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "\
     liburi-perl \
     perl-module-config \
     perl-module-file-spec \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libhtml/libhtml-tagset-perl_3.20.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libhtml/libhtml-tagset-perl_3.20.bb
index d6483cc..b506589 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libhtml/libhtml-tagset-perl_3.20.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libhtml/libhtml-tagset-perl_3.20.bb
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-strict perl-module-vars"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-strict perl-module-vars"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-test"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-test"
 
-do_install_prepend() {
+do_install:prepend() {
     # requires "-T" (taint) command line option
     rm -rf ${B}/t/pod.t
 }
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libhtml/libhtml-tree-perl_5.03.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libhtml/libhtml-tree-perl_5.03.bb
index 569ac69..e3c8663 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libhtml/libhtml-tree-perl_5.03.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libhtml/libhtml-tree-perl_5.03.bb
@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@
 DEPENDS += "libmodule-build-perl-native \
 "
 
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = " libhtml-element-perl \
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = " libhtml-element-perl \
     libhtml-tree-assubs-perl \
     libhtml-tree-perl \
     libhtml-treebuilder-perl \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " perl-module-b \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " perl-module-b \
     perl-module-base \
     perl-module-strict \
     perl-module-warnings \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libimport/libimport-into-perl_1.002004.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libimport/libimport-into-perl_1.002004.bb
index af08d63..a0be629 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libimport/libimport-into-perl_1.002004.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libimport/libimport-into-perl_1.002004.bb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " libmodule-runtime-perl \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " libmodule-runtime-perl \
                    perl-module-strict \
                    perl-module-warnings \
 "
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libio/libio-socket-ssl-perl_2.071.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libio/libio-socket-ssl-perl_2.071.bb
index 4a98ac3..4ab5531 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libio/libio-socket-ssl-perl_2.071.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libio/libio-socket-ssl-perl_2.071.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0|GPLv1+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://META.yml;beginline=12;endline=12;md5=963ce28228347875ace682de56eef8e8"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
     libnet-ssleay-perl \
     perl-module-autoloader \
     perl-module-scalar-util \
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest
 
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
     mkdir -p ${D}${docdir}/${PN}/
     cp ${S}/BUGS ${D}${docdir}/${PN}/
     cp ${S}/Changes ${D}${docdir}/${PN}/
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libio/libio-stringy-perl_2.111.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libio/libio-stringy-perl_2.111.bb
index 0e566c0..3f5a278 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libio/libio-stringy-perl_2.111.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libio/libio-stringy-perl_2.111.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += " libio-atomicfile-perl \
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += " libio-atomicfile-perl \
     libio-innerfile-perl \
     libio-lines-perl \
     libio-scalar-perl \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmime/libmime-types-perl_2.17.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmime/libmime-types-perl_2.17.bb
index 4147530..fd398a0 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmime/libmime-types-perl_2.17.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmime/libmime-types-perl_2.17.bb
@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
     perl-module-base \
     perl-module-file-basename \
     perl-module-file-spec \
     perl-module-overload \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest = "perl-module-lib perl-module-test-more"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest = "perl-module-lib perl-module-test-more"
 #RSUGGESTS_${PN}-ptest = "libmojo-base-perl"
 
 do_install () {
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmodule/libmodule-build-tiny-perl_0.039.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmodule/libmodule-build-tiny-perl_0.039.bb
index b1a56e5..ebf2a5b 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmodule/libmodule-build-tiny-perl_0.039.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmodule/libmodule-build-tiny-perl_0.039.bb
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         cpan_build_do_install
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " libextutils-config-perl \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " libextutils-config-perl \
                    libextutils-helpers-perl \
                    libextutils-installpaths-perl \
                    perl-module-xsloader \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmodule/libmodule-pluggable-perl_5.2.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmodule/libmodule-pluggable-perl_5.2.bb
index aed65d3..1d257ce 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmodule/libmodule-pluggable-perl_5.2.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmodule/libmodule-pluggable-perl_5.2.bb
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " perl-module-base \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " perl-module-base \
     perl-module-deprecate \
     perl-module-file-basename \
     perl-module-file-find \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmodule/libmodule-runtime-perl_0.016.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmodule/libmodule-runtime-perl_0.016.bb
index 89f0f70..bb950b8 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmodule/libmodule-runtime-perl_0.016.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmodule/libmodule-runtime-perl_0.016.bb
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " perl-module-test-more \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " perl-module-test-more \
                    perl-module-strict \
 "
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmoo/libmoo-perl_2.005004.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmoo/libmoo-perl_2.005004.bb
index ecc4d87..596d448 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmoo/libmoo-perl_2.005004.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libmoo/libmoo-perl_2.005004.bb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " libclass-method-modifiers-perl \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " libclass-method-modifiers-perl \
                    libdevel-globaldestruction-perl \
                    libmodule-runtime-perl \
                    librole-tiny-perl \
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
                    perl-module-scalar-util \
 "
 
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = " libmethod-inliner-perl \
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = " libmethod-inliner-perl \
                     libmethod-generate-accessor-perl \
                     libmethod-generate-buildall-perl \
                     libmethod-generate-constructor-perl \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-dns-perl_1.31.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-dns-perl_1.32.bb
similarity index 90%
rename from meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-dns-perl_1.31.bb
rename to meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-dns-perl_1.32.bb
index c806456..7e485be 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-dns-perl_1.31.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-dns-perl_1.32.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 SRC_URI = "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/N/NL/NLNETLABS/Net-DNS-${PV}.tar.gz"
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "00024a8e371605c6d8422a27a0a87af8b7cf66f26502102e68ddd4baf7cfc615"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b890a7b44d573f27cc713caadf1e12eaaa4478a6504d1157194df614316b5b50"
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "Net\-DNS\-(?P<pver>(\d+\.\d+))(?!_\d+).tar"
 
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " \
     libdigest-hmac-perl \
     perl-module-base \
     perl-module-constant \
@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@
     perl-module-time-local \
 "
 
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += " \
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += " \
     libnet-dns-sec-perl \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     perl-module-encode \
     perl-module-encode-byte \
     perl-module-extutils-mm \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-dns-sec-perl_1.10.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-dns-sec-perl_1.10.bb
index 240ffec..fe7bb33 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-dns-sec-perl_1.10.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-dns-sec-perl_1.10.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " \
     libnet-dns-perl \
     libcrypto \
     perl-module-dynaloader \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-ldap-perl_0.68.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-ldap-perl_0.68.bb
index 5951607..c82190a 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-ldap-perl_0.68.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-ldap-perl_0.68.bb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
     perl -pi -e 's/auto_install_now.*//g' Makefile.PL
 }
 
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@
 	chown -R root:root ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
     libconvert-asn1-perl \
     libio-socket-ssl-perl \
     libauthen-sasl-perl \
     perl-module-integer \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     libxml-sax-base-perl \
     libxml-sax-writer-perl \
     perl-module-file-compare \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-libidn-perl_0.12.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-libidn-perl_0.12.bb
index 1ef9f0b..37586fd 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-libidn-perl_0.12.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-libidn-perl_0.12.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 DEPENDS += "libidn"
 # We must need glibc-gconvs to enable charset related functions,
 # such as Net::LibIDN::idn_to_ascii().
-RDEPENDS_${PN}_append_libc-glibc = " glibc-gconvs"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:append:libc-glibc = " glibc-gconvs"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TH/THOR/Net-LibIDN-${PV}.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "c3e4de2065009d67bcb1df0afb473e12"
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/Net/LibIDN/.debug/"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/Net/LibIDN/.debug/"
 
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
     rm -rf ${S}/.pc/
 }
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-ssleay-perl_1.85.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-ssleay-perl_1.85.bb
index 93a0687..effcb3d 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-ssleay-perl_1.85.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-ssleay-perl_1.85.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=274;endline=294;md5=67d67095d83e339da538a082fad5f38e"
 
 DEPENDS = "openssl zlib openssl-native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
     libssl \
     libcrypto \
     perl-module-carp \
@@ -43,6 +43,6 @@
     cp -r ${B}/t ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
 }
 
-FILES_${PN}-dbg =+ "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/Net/SSLeay/.debug/"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg =+ "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/Net/SSLeay/.debug/"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest = " perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest = " perl"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-telnet-perl_3.05.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-telnet-perl_3.05.bb
index c5d8271..9b259ab 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-telnet-perl_3.05.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libnet/libnet-telnet-perl_3.05.bb
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "perl"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libproc/libproc-waitstat-perl_1.00.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libproc/libproc-waitstat-perl_1.00.bb
index 1599e61..1dbd923 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libproc/libproc-waitstat-perl_1.00.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libproc/libproc-waitstat-perl_1.00.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0|GPLv1+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=21;endline=23;md5=f36550f59a0ae5e6e3b0be6a4da60d26"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl libipc-signal-perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl libipc-signal-perl"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/Proc-WaitStat-${PV}"
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/librole/librole-tiny-perl_2.002004.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/librole/librole-tiny-perl_2.002004.bb
index db8646d..df7b9b8 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/librole/librole-tiny-perl_2.002004.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/librole/librole-tiny-perl_2.002004.bb
@@ -16,13 +16,13 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " perl-module-exporter \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " perl-module-exporter \
                    perl-module-strict \
                    perl-module-test-more \
                    perl-module-warnings \
 "
 
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = " librole-tiny-perl \
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = " librole-tiny-perl \
                     librole-tiny-with-perl \
 "
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libstatgrab/libunix-statgrab_0.112.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libstatgrab/libunix-statgrab_0.112.bb
index c0113b4..7af7f92 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libstatgrab/libunix-statgrab_0.112.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libstatgrab/libunix-statgrab_0.112.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 DEPENDS += "libcapture-tiny-perl-native"
 DEPENDS += "libconfig-autoconf-perl-native"
 DEPENDS += "libstatgrab"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
     libstatgrab \
     perl-module-autoloader \
     perl-module-carp \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libstrictures/libstrictures-perl_2.000006.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libstrictures/libstrictures-perl_2.000006.bb
index d1a5b47..765455b 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libstrictures/libstrictures-perl_2.000006.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libstrictures/libstrictures-perl_2.000006.bb
@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
     perl-module-carp \
     perl-module-strict \
     perl-module-test-more \
     perl-module-warnings \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-perlio perl-module-perlio-scalar"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-perlio perl-module-perlio-scalar"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libsub/libsub-exporter-progressive-perl_0.001013.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libsub/libsub-exporter-progressive-perl_0.001013.bb
index 3d530d1..fa66cd8 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libsub/libsub-exporter-progressive-perl_0.001013.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libsub/libsub-exporter-progressive-perl_0.001013.bb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " perl-module-carp \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " perl-module-carp \
                     perl-module-list-util \
 "
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libsub/libsub-uplevel-perl_0.2800.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libsub/libsub-uplevel-perl_0.2800.bb
index f051037..98c322f 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libsub/libsub-uplevel-perl_0.2800.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libsub/libsub-uplevel-perl_0.2800.bb
@@ -24,14 +24,14 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
     perl-module-carp \
     perl-module-constant \
     perl-module-strict \
     perl-module-warnings \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     perl-module-cpan \
     perl-module-exporter \
     perl-module-extutils-makemaker \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libterm/libterm-readkey-perl_2.38.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libterm/libterm-readkey-perl_2.38.bb
index cc1ac6e..3948f3c 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libterm/libterm-readkey-perl_2.38.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libterm/libterm-readkey-perl_2.38.bb
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     perl-module-test-more \
 "
 
-do_configure_append () {
+do_configure:append () {
     # Hack the dynamic module loader so that it use native modules since it can't load
     # the target ones.
     if [ "${BUILD_SYS}" != "${HOST_SYS}" ]; then
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-deep-perl_1.130.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-deep-perl_1.130.bb
index c82a1a1..75e1623 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-deep-perl_1.130.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-deep-perl_1.130.bb
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
     perl-module-dynaloader \
     perl-module-exporter \
     perl-module-fcntl \
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     perl-module-warnings \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     perl-module-if \
     perl-module-lib \
     perl-module-test-more \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-harness-perl_3.42.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-harness-perl_3.42.bb
index c9ba594..7d7f336 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-harness-perl_3.42.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-harness-perl_3.42.bb
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@
 
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
     perl-module-benchmark \
 "
 
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "libapp-prove-perl \
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "libapp-prove-perl \
                     libapp-prove-state-perl \
                     libapp-prove-state-result-perl \
                     libapp-prove-state-result-test-perl \
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
                     libtap-parser-yamlish-writer-perl \
                     "
 
-do_install_prepend() {
+do_install:prepend() {
 	# these tests are inappropriate on target
 	rm -rf ${B}/t/000-load.t
 	rm -rf ${B}/t/state.t
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
 	rm -rf ${B}/t/compat/version.t
 }
 
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
 	install -d ${D}/usr/local/bin
 	# do not clobber perl-misc /usr/bin/prove
 	install -m 0755 ${B}/bin/prove ${D}/usr/local/bin/
@@ -115,6 +115,6 @@
 	rm -rf ${D}${bindir}
 }
 
-FILES_${PN} += "/usr/local/bin/prove"
+FILES:${PN} += "/usr/local/bin/prove"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-nowarnings-perl_1.04.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-nowarnings-perl_1.04.bb
index f3c28d3..b206683 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-nowarnings-perl_1.04.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-nowarnings-perl_1.04.bb
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "682ed043f7d3e38f3dfd8745fd21c49a"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "638a57658cb119af1fe5b15e73d47c2544dcfef84af0c6b1b2e97f08202b686c"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-test-builder perl-module-test-more perl-module-test-tester"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-test-builder perl-module-test-more perl-module-test-tester"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/${CPAN_PACKAGE}-${PV}"
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-warn-perl_0.36.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-warn-perl_0.36.bb
index c336da8..96939ec 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-warn-perl_0.36.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-warn-perl_0.36.bb
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     chown -R root:root ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
     libsub-uplevel-perl \
     perl-module-blib \
     perl-module-carp \
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     perl-module-test-tester \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     perl-module-file-spec \
     perl-module-test-more \
 "
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-warnings-perl_0.030.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-warnings-perl_0.031.bb
similarity index 92%
rename from meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-warnings-perl_0.030.bb
rename to meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-warnings-perl_0.031.bb
index 78110ca..8014c19 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-warnings-perl_0.030.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtest/libtest-warnings-perl_0.031.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 SRC_URI = "https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/Test-Warnings-${PV}.tar.gz"
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "89a4947ddf1564ae01122275584433d7f6c4370370bcf3768922d796956ae24f"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1e542909fef305e45563e9878ea1c3b0c7cef1b28bb7ae07eba2e1efabec477b"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/Test-Warnings-${PV}"
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtext/libtext-diff-perl_1.41.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtext/libtext-diff-perl_1.41.bb
index a4c246e..b6f7495 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtext/libtext-diff-perl_1.41.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtext/libtext-diff-perl_1.41.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " libalgorithm-diff-perl \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " libalgorithm-diff-perl \
                    perl-module-extutils-makemaker \
                    perl-module-exporter \
 "
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtext/libtext-iconv-perl_1.7.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtext/libtext-iconv-perl_1.7.bb
index 275ccb8..a16bf87 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtext/libtext-iconv-perl_1.7.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtext/libtext-iconv-perl_1.7.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=3;endline=6;md5=fadf2919c7128e887d26b4d905f90649"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_libc-glibc = " glibc-gconvs"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}:append:libc-glibc = " glibc-gconvs"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MP/MPIOTR/Text-Iconv-${PV}.tar.gz"
 
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@
 
 inherit cpan
 
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/Text/Iconv/.debug/"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/Text/Iconv/.debug/"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtext/libtext-wrapi18n-perl_0.06.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtext/libtext-wrapi18n-perl_0.06.bb
index b2c239d..5dc2ad3 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtext/libtext-wrapi18n-perl_0.06.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libtext/libtext-wrapi18n-perl_0.06.bb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 DEPENDS = "libtext-charwidth-perl"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "libtext-charwidth-perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "libtext-charwidth-perl"
 
 inherit cpan
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libunicode/libunicode-linebreak-perl_2019.001.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libunicode/libunicode-linebreak-perl_2019.001.bb
index 304b375..4c01a4c 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libunicode/libunicode-linebreak-perl_2019.001.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libunicode/libunicode-linebreak-perl_2019.001.bb
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     chown -R root:root ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
 }
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
     libmime-charset-perl \
     libsombok3 \
     perl-module-carp \
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@
     perl-module-xsloader \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     perl-module-findbin \
     perl-module-lib \
     perl-module-strict \
     perl-module-test-more \
 "
 
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += " \
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += " \
     libtext-linefold-perl \
     libunicode-gcstring-perl \
 "
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-filter-buffertext-perl_1.01.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-filter-buffertext-perl_1.01.bb
index 77dd616..6247745 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-filter-buffertext-perl_1.01.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-filter-buffertext-perl_1.01.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPLv1+"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Filter-BufferText/"
 DEPENDS += "libxml-sax-perl-native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libxml-sax-perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "libxml-sax-perl"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RB/RBERJON/XML-Filter-BufferText-${PV}.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "2992c0387632583b966ab9c965b25512"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-libxml-perl_2.0134.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-libxml-perl_2.0134.bb
index 6fabf26..58d0e4c 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-libxml-perl_2.0134.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-libxml-perl_2.0134.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
         libxml-sax-perl-native \
         zlib \
 "
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
     libxml2 \
     libxml-sax-perl \
     libxml-sax-base-perl \
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@
 CFLAGS += " -D_GNU_SOURCE "
 BUILD_CFLAGS += " -D_GNU_SOURCE "
 
-FILES_${PN}-dbg =+ "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/XML/LibXML/.debug/"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg =+ "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/XML/LibXML/.debug/"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     liburi-perl \
     perl-module-encode-byte \
     perl-module-encode-unicode \
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     perl-module-test-more \
 "
 
-do_install_prepend() {
+do_install:prepend() {
 	# test requires "-T" (taint) command line option
 	rm -rf ${B}/t/pod.t
 	# this only applies to author build
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-sax-writer-perl_0.57.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-sax-writer-perl_0.57.bb
index d1b0de0..ab684ea 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-sax-writer-perl_0.57.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-sax-writer-perl_0.57.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPLv1+"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-SAX-Writer/"
 DEPENDS += "libxml-filter-buffertext-perl-native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libxml-filter-buffertext-perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "libxml-filter-buffertext-perl"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PERIGRIN/XML-SAX-Writer-${PV}.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "3e3023c648e3003c04de2fb04435f8bd"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-perl.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-perl.bb
index 3fa56d4..05dc16b 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-perl.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-perl.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     ${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "ptest", "packagegroup-meta-perl-ptest-packages", "", d)} \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-perl = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-perl = "\
     adduser \
     libalgorithm-diff-perl \
     libauthen-sasl-perl \
@@ -78,12 +78,12 @@
     po4a \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-perl-extended = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-perl-extended = "\
     logcheck \
     mime-construct \
 "
 
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-perl-ptest-packages = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-perl-ptest-packages = "\
     libmime-types-perl-ptest \
     libio-socket-ssl-perl-ptest \
     libdata-hexdump-perl-ptest \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/po4a/po4a_0.49.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/po4a/po4a_0.49.bb
index 1b3aca5..e13eac6 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/po4a/po4a_0.49.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/po4a/po4a_0.49.bb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     libunicode-linebreak-perl \
 "
 
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = " \
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = " \
     libtext-wrapi18n-perl \
     libterm-readkey-perl \
     liblocale-gettext-perl \