diff --git a/programming/language/re2/pspec.xml b/programming/language/re2/pspec.xml
index 91dd32dcb6..45071a496e 100644
--- a/programming/language/re2/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/language/re2/pspec.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         <IsA>library</IsA>
         <Summary>Fast, safe, thread-friendly regular expression engine</Summary>
         <Description>Fast, safe, thread-friendly regular expression engine</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="106655a9ee3c7e87b21cc8a6e2f04487a527f022" type="targz">https://github.com/google/re2/archive/2018-04-01.tar.gz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="a32402a70750d2da04fa772504e0180bdd9d6708" type="targz">https://github.com/google/re2/archive/2018-08-01.tar.gz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
         </BuildDependencies>
     </Source>
@@ -42,6 +42,13 @@
     </Package>
     
     <History>
+        <Update release="2">
+            <Date>2018-09-19</Date>
+            <Version>20180801</Version>
+            <Comment>First release</Comment>
+            <Name>Mustafa Cinasal</Name>
+            <Email>muscnsl@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="1">
             <Date>2018-05-21</Date>
             <Version>20180401</Version>