diff --git a/package/base/pcre/pcre.desc b/package/base/pcre/pcre.desc
index 2e7700dc3..a9b4c8e04 100644
--- a/package/base/pcre/pcre.desc
+++ b/package/base/pcre/pcre.desc
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
 
 [L] OpenSource
 [S] Stable
-[V] 6.4
+[V] 7.1
 [P] X -?---5---9 108.100
 
-[D] 2410758921 pcre-6.4.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
+[D] 228857116 pcre-7.1.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/