diff --git a/config/check_modules.pl b/config/check_modules.pl
index 399ac5e3b6..cc0a7ab0e7 100644
--- a/config/check_modules.pl
+++ b/config/check_modules.pl
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use IPC::Run 0.79;
 
 # Test::More and Time::HiRes are supposed to be part of core Perl,
 # but some distros omit them in a minimal installation.
-use Test::More 0.87;
+use Test::More 0.98;
 use Time::HiRes 1.52;
 
 # While here, we might as well report exactly what versions we found.
diff --git a/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm b/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm
index 10bf31755e..f607ee3a4b 100644
--- a/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm
+++ b/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm
@@ -58,9 +58,8 @@ use File::Temp ();
 use IPC::Run;
 use SimpleTee;
 
-# specify a recent enough version of Test::More to support the
-# done_testing() function
-use Test::More 0.87;
+# We need a version of Test::More recent enough to support subtests
+use Test::More 0.98;
 
 our @EXPORT = qw(
   generate_ascii_string