diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index d998182..f3fa38b 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+feedgnuplot (1.34)
+
+  * Fix for "Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated". Thanks to Corey
+    Putkunz
+
+  * Declaring feedgnuplot as a package to let MetaCPAN index this
+    distribution
+
+ -- Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>  Wed, 14 May 2014 00:45:24 -0700
+
 feedgnuplot (1.33)
 
   * fixed incorrect plotting of --timefmt --rangesize plots
diff --git a/bin/feedgnuplot b/bin/feedgnuplot
index e1e6d10..08e177b 100755
--- a/bin/feedgnuplot
+++ b/bin/feedgnuplot
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl
+
+package feedgnuplot; # for the metacpan indexer
+
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Getopt::Long;
@@ -13,7 +16,7 @@ use Thread::Queue;
 use Pod::Usage;
 use Time::Piece;
 
-my $VERSION = 1.33;
+my $VERSION = 1.34;
 
 my %options;
 interpretCommandline();
@@ -371,7 +374,7 @@ sub interpretCommandline
     $options{timefmt} =~ s/^\s*//;
     $options{timefmt} =~ s/\s*$//;
 
-    my $Nfields = scalar split( ' ', $options{timefmt});
+    my $Nfields = () = split /\s+/, $options{timefmt}, -1;
     $options{timefmt_Ncols} = $Nfields;
 
     # make sure --xlen is an integer. With a timefmt xlen goes through strptime