diff --git a/poky/meta/classes/cpan-base.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes/cpan-base.bbclass
index 867edf8..1fc3f0b 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes/cpan-base.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes/cpan-base.bbclass
@@ -16,3 +16,12 @@
 
 PERLLIBDIRS = "${libdir}/perl5"
 PERLLIBDIRS_class-native = "${libdir}/perl5"
+
+def cpan_upstream_check_pattern(d):
+    for x in (d.getVar('SRC_URI') or '').split(' '):
+        if x.startswith("https://cpan.metacpan.org"):
+            _pattern = x.split('/')[-1].replace(d.getVar('PV'), '(?P<pver>\d+.\d+)')
+            return _pattern
+    return ''
+
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX ?= "${@cpan_upstream_check_pattern(d)}"