diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5d7eb32..4459fb3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # ChangeLog for find_cruft
 
+*find_cruft-v3.0.10
+	Martin Väth <martin at mvath.de>:
+	- Force utf8 in manpage
+	- Lower required perl version
+	- Check perl version at compile time
+
 *find_cruft-v3.0.9
 	Martin Väth <martin at mvath.de>:
 	- Work (rudimentary) if no config file is read
diff --git a/bin/find_cruft b/bin/find_cruft
index d8d69f7..ae36a31 100755
--- a/bin/find_cruft
+++ b/bin/find_cruft
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env perl
-require 5.012;
-package FindCruft v3.0.9;
+BEGIN { require 5.008 }
+our $VERSION = 'v3.0.10';
+eval "package FindCruft $VERSION" if($] ge '5.012');
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
@@ -12,6 +13,8 @@ use File::Spec ();
 use Getopt::Long 2.24 ();
 #use Pod::Usage ();
 
+=encoding UTF-8
+
 =head1 NAME
 
 find_cruft - find cruft files on Gentoo and similar distributions
@@ -317,7 +320,6 @@ Martin VE<auml>th E<lt>martin@mvath.deE<gt>
 
 # Static variables:
 
-our $VERSION;
 my $name = 'find_cruft';
 my $rootdir = File::Spec->rootdir();