diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/template b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
index 939371b2eb..5dd16665c9 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # Template file for 'pcre'
 pkgname=pcre
-version=8.11
+version=8.12
 distfiles="ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-$version.tar.bz2"
 build_style=gnu_configure
 configure_args="--enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties
 --enable-pcregrep-libz --enable-pcregrep-libbz2 --enable-newline-is-anycrlf"
 short_desc="Perl Compatible Regular Expressions"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-checksum=715a002f49ecae31da033f1baec955d9e478138c6bbf11214d41dbe5034f5cd7
+checksum=c63070d461edc451ec9457f2324e152a531e907d5c5d2d8f8121e725acd1aeec
 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