diff --git a/system/base/libpcre/pspec.xml b/system/base/libpcre/pspec.xml
index c913c258..d2caf7ab 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="ae84e3b3ef0764788ce33b1adeff1add938126e1" type="tarbz2">http://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.38.tar.bz2</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="12f338719b8b028a2eecbf9192fcc00a13fc04f6" type="tarbz2">http://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.40.tar.bz2</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>readline-devel</Dependency>
         </BuildDependencies>
@@ -69,6 +69,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="4">
+            <Date>2017-01-20</Date>
+            <Version>8.40</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Ertuğrul Erata</Name>
+            <Email>ertugrulerata@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="3">
             <Date>2017-01-07</Date>
             <Version>8.38</Version>
@@ -91,4 +98,4 @@
             <Email>ertugrulerata@gmail.com</Email>
         </Update>
     </History>
-</PISI>
+</PISI>
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