diff --git a/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.39.recipe b/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.40.recipe
similarity index 94%
rename from dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.39.recipe
rename to dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.40.recipe
index 396f4f1ad..1092160ff 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.39.recipe
+++ b/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.40.recipe
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ PCRE has its own native API, as well as a set of wrapper functions that \
 correspond to the POSIX regular expression API. The PCRE library is free, even \
 for building proprietary software.
 This package contains the native API."
-COPYRIGHT="1997-2016 University of Cambridge
+COPYRIGHT="1997-2017 University of Cambridge
 	2007-2012, Google Inc. All rights reserved."
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.pcre.org/"
 LICENSE="PCRE"
-REVISION="2"
+REVISION="1"
 SOURCE_URI="https://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-$portVersion.tar.bz2"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="b858099f82483031ee02092711689e7245586ada49e534a06e678b8ea9549e8b"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="00e27a29ead4267e3de8111fcaa59b132d0533cdfdbdddf4b0604279acbcf4f4"
 SOURCE_DIR="pcre-$portVersion"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"