diff --git a/package/base/pcre/pcre.desc b/package/base/pcre/pcre.desc
index 8197d5b4b..295802b84 100644
--- a/package/base/pcre/pcre.desc
+++ b/package/base/pcre/pcre.desc
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
 
 [L] OpenSource
 [S] Stable
-[V] 5.0
+[V] 6.3
 [P] X -?---5---9 108.100
 
-[D] 374465002 pcre-5.0.tar.bz2 http://dl.sf.net/pcre/
+[D] 2198637766 pcre-6.3.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/