in reply to Installing a newer version of a core module

In general you can't know without looking, but in this case it looks like the changes would be fine for 5.6.1. Here is the diff output for the two versions:
16c16 < $VERSION = "0.05"; --- > $VERSION = "0.06"; 56,58c56,62 < delete $self->[0]{$fd}{$io}; < delete $self->[1]{$fd} unless %{$self->[0]{$fd}}; < delete $self->[2]{$io}; --- > delete $self->[0]{$fd}{$io}; > unless(%{$self->[0]{$fd}}) { > # We no longer have any handles for this FD > delete $self->[1]{$fd}; > delete $self->[0]{$fd}; > } > delete $self->[2]{$io};