diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 1128d1120..013373a5e 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -8105,7 +8105,7 @@ fi
 if test "$has_system_pcre2" = "no"
 then :
 
-pcre2_version="10.42"
+pcre2_version="10.44"
 { printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: extracting PCRE2 regex library" >&5
 printf "%s\n" "extracting PCRE2 regex library" >&6; }
 cur_dir=`pwd`
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0b6583979..8d545d6fb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ AS_IF([test "x$PRIVATELIBDIR" != "x"], [rm -f "$PRIVATELIBDIR/"libpcre2*])],[has
 
 AS_IF([test "$has_system_pcre2" = "no"], [
 dnl REMEMBER TO CHANGE WITH A NEW PCRE2 RELEASE!
-pcre2_version="10.42"
+pcre2_version="10.44"
 AC_MSG_RESULT(extracting PCRE2 regex library)
 cur_dir=`pwd`
 cd extras
diff --git a/doc/RELEASE-NOTES.md b/doc/RELEASE-NOTES.md
index 124c15d5b..ed7694a65 100644
--- a/doc/RELEASE-NOTES.md
+++ b/doc/RELEASE-NOTES.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ in progress and may not always be a stable version.
 * IRCOps with the operclass `locop` can now only `REHASH` the local server
   and not remote servers.
 * Comment out some more in example.conf by default
-* Update shipped libraries: c-ares to 1.31.0
+* Update shipped libraries: c-ares to 1.31.0, PCRE2 to 10.44
 
 ### Fixes:
 * Silence some compiler warnings regarding deprecation of c-ares API in
diff --git a/extras/pcre2.tar.gz b/extras/pcre2.tar.gz
index 5eda63815..d6b2f8e0d 100644
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