diff --git a/base/pcre/pcre.desc b/base/pcre/pcre.desc
index f8cc8de8b..bc8cce972 100644
--- a/base/pcre/pcre.desc
+++ b/base/pcre/pcre.desc
@@ -31,11 +31,10 @@
 [M] The OpenSDE Community <list@opensde.org>
 
 [C] base/library
-[F] NOPARALLEL
 
 [L] BSD
 [S] Stable
-[V] 7.7
+[V] 7.8
 [P] X -----5---9 110.000
 
-[D] 3238643479 pcre-7.7.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
+[D] 1440148778 pcre-7.8.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/