diff --git a/configure b/configure
index d25a028d2..e5c949ef7 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -7672,7 +7672,7 @@ fi
 
 if test "x$with_system_pcre2" = "xno"; then :
 
-pcre2_version="10.22"
+pcre2_version="10.30"
 { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: extracting PCRE2 regex library" >&5
 $as_echo "extracting PCRE2 regex library" >&6; }
 cur_dir=`pwd`
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d318fca41..40b5b709a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ PKG_CHECK_MODULES([TRE], tre >= 0.7.5)
 
 AS_IF([test "x$with_system_pcre2" = "xno"],[
 dnl REMEMBER TO CHANGE WITH A NEW PCRE2 RELEASE!
-pcre2_version="10.22"
+pcre2_version="10.30"
 AC_MSG_RESULT(extracting PCRE2 regex library)
 cur_dir=`pwd`
 cd extras
diff --git a/extras/pcre2.tar.gz b/extras/pcre2.tar.gz
index bd0ea78f7..ac6b649d3 100644
Binary files a/extras/pcre2.tar.gz and b/extras/pcre2.tar.gz differ