diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/template b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
index 4b28534c9a1..03001b237f4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'pcre'
 pkgname=pcre
-version=8.39
-revision=2
+version=8.40
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties --with-pic
 --enable-pcregrep-libz --enable-pcregrep-libbz2 --enable-newline-is-anycrlf
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ homepage="http://www.pcre.org/"
 license="BSD"
 #distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/pcre/pcre-$version.tar.gz"
 distfiles="ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=b858099f82483031ee02092711689e7245586ada49e534a06e678b8ea9549e8b
+checksum=00e27a29ead4267e3de8111fcaa59b132d0533cdfdbdddf4b0604279acbcf4f4
 
 post_install() {
 	vlicense LICENCE