diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template b/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
index 57e5ed3fcc..2dfd3ab1c4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ long_desc="${long_desc}
 
  This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
 
-revision=1
-
 Add_dependency run zlib-devel
 Add_dependency run bzip2-devel
 Add_dependency run pcre
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/template b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
index 3082b112e5..35ebf01d77 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
@@ -1,15 +1,13 @@
 # Template file for 'pcre'
 pkgname=pcre
-version=8.02
-revision=1
+version=8.10
 distfiles="$SOURCEFORGE_SITE/pcre/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
 build_style=gnu_configure
 configure_args="--enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties
- --enable-pcregrep-libz --enable-pcregrep-libbz2
- --enable-newline-is-anycrlf"
+--enable-pcregrep-libz --enable-pcregrep-libbz2 --enable-newline-is-anycrlf"
 short_desc="Perl Compatible Regular Expressions"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-checksum=a4759036d9c3e1773e8b680827b17b843f724ef9021744db92b8dd35ebac4ebd
+checksum=7ac4e016f6bad8c7d990e6de9bce58c04ff5dd8838be0c5ada0afad1d6a07480
 long_desc="
  The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression
  pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE