diff --git a/devel/pcre/Makefile b/devel/pcre/Makefile
index 50e5b7c7a78d..1e4df3427f21 100644
--- a/devel/pcre/Makefile
+++ b/devel/pcre/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	pcre
-PORTVERSION=	7.2
+PORTVERSION=	7.3
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/%SUBDIR%/ \
 		ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/misc/%SUBDIR%/ \
diff --git a/devel/pcre/distinfo b/devel/pcre/distinfo
index 02bacbbefc89..4f2dd650faf6 100644
--- a/devel/pcre/distinfo
+++ b/devel/pcre/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-MD5 (pcre-7.2.tar.bz2) = 53305db73855f1ff155dcd2c05d448d3
-SHA256 (pcre-7.2.tar.bz2) = e10ace2d0361f74f759b52534f05872d93ccce10b5efe7eec73dd39dc0ac52f4
-SIZE (pcre-7.2.tar.bz2) = 738540
+MD5 (pcre-7.3.tar.bz2) = 08b48bf97ff84a9dea07d6be518f0046
+SHA256 (pcre-7.3.tar.bz2) = ee17edd45d745c09dd2b7477be31df77b4c1047bedb4994feb0c636c998f4242
+SIZE (pcre-7.3.tar.bz2) = 764859