diff --git a/system/base/libpcre/pspec.xml b/system/base/libpcre/pspec.xml
index d1725719..bdb9999e 100644
--- a/system/base/libpcre/pspec.xml
+++ b/system/base/libpcre/pspec.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         <IsA>library</IsA>
         <Summary>Perl-compatible regular expression library</Summary>
         <Description>The PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5.</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="9a074e9cbf3eb9f05213fd9ca5bc188644845ccc" type="tarbz2">http://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.36.tar.bz2</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="ae84e3b3ef0764788ce33b1adeff1add938126e1" type="tarbz2">http://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.38.tar.bz2</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>readline-devel</Dependency>
         </BuildDependencies>
@@ -71,6 +71,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="9">
+            <Date>2016-02-25</Date>
+            <Version>8.38</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Ertuğrul Erata</Name>
+            <Email>ertugrulerata@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="8">
             <Date>2015-01-25</Date>
             <Version>8.36</Version>