diff --git a/Porting/Maintainers.pl b/Porting/Maintainers.pl
index ab89c9f47002..fc4610f015f6 100755
--- a/Porting/Maintainers.pl
+++ b/Porting/Maintainers.pl
@@ -885,8 +885,8 @@ package Maintainers;
     },
 
     'parent' => {
-        'DISTRIBUTION' => 'CORION/parent-0.243.tar.gz',
-        'SYNCINFO'     => 'tib on Wed Dec  4 17:52:22 2024',
+        'DISTRIBUTION' => 'CORION/parent-0.244.tar.gz',
+        'SYNCINFO'     => 'jkeenan on Sat Dec 14 07:56:36 2024',
         'FILES'        => q[cpan/parent],
         'EXCLUDED'     => [
             qr{^xt}
diff --git a/cpan/parent/lib/parent.pm b/cpan/parent/lib/parent.pm
index a3c207730a9a..746bf9439d2d 100644
--- a/cpan/parent/lib/parent.pm
+++ b/cpan/parent/lib/parent.pm
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package parent;
 use strict;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.243';
+our $VERSION = '0.244';
 
 sub import {
     my $class = shift;
diff --git a/cpan/parent/t/parent-pmc.t b/cpan/parent/t/parent-pmc.t
index db84b2f28b9d..752526d63423 100644
--- a/cpan/parent/t/parent-pmc.t
+++ b/cpan/parent/t/parent-pmc.t
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ plan skip_all => ".pmc are only available with 5.6 and later" if $] < 5.006;
 # Skip this test if perl is compiled with PERL_DISABLE_PMC
 #
 my $pmc = 1;
-if (Config->can('non_bincompat_options')) { # $] ge '5.014'
+if (Config->can('non_bincompat_options')) { # "$]" ge '5.014'
     $pmc = 0
         if grep { $_ eq 'PERL_DISABLE_PMC' } Config::non_bincompat_options();
 } elsif (eval {