diff --git a/package/pcre2/pcre2.hash b/package/pcre2/pcre2.hash
index e3fe6b2d53..f609bdaee2 100644
--- a/package/pcre2/pcre2.hash
+++ b/package/pcre2/pcre2.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature:
-# https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/releases/download/pcre2-10.40/pcre2-10.40.tar.bz2.sig
-sha256  14e4b83c4783933dc17e964318e6324f7cae1bc75d8f3c79bc6969f00c159d68  pcre2-10.40.tar.bz2
+# https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/releases/download/pcre2-10.42/pcre2-10.42.tar.bz2.sig
+sha256  8d36cd8cb6ea2a4c2bb358ff6411b0c788633a2a45dabbf1aeb4b701d1b5e840  pcre2-10.42.tar.bz2
 # Locally computed
 sha256  87d884eceb7fc54611470ce9f74280d28612b0c877adfc767e9676892a638987  LICENCE
diff --git a/package/pcre2/pcre2.mk b/package/pcre2/pcre2.mk
index 06a0afc9b8..aba378cab6 100644
--- a/package/pcre2/pcre2.mk
+++ b/package/pcre2/pcre2.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PCRE2_VERSION = 10.40
+PCRE2_VERSION = 10.42
 PCRE2_SITE = https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/releases/download/pcre2-$(PCRE2_VERSION)
 PCRE2_SOURCE = pcre2-$(PCRE2_VERSION).tar.bz2
 PCRE2_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause