diff --git a/libpcre/.md5sum b/libpcre/.md5sum
index fba0436e5..b14fd31f9 100644
--- a/libpcre/.md5sum
+++ b/libpcre/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-4b2e9cde1f7227448dddba59843efa0b  pcre-7.7.tar.bz2
+141132d6af14dccc7b08fa797e4fd441  pcre-7.8.tar.bz2
diff --git a/libpcre/Pkgfile b/libpcre/Pkgfile
index a97ecf6d0..ec41981e0 100644
--- a/libpcre/Pkgfile
+++ b/libpcre/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Packager: Han Boetes, han at mijncomputer dot nl
 
 name=libpcre
-version=7.7
+version=7.8
 release=1
 source=(ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-$version.tar.bz2)