diff --git a/package/pcre2/pcre2.hash b/package/pcre2/pcre2.hash
index 130ce1f596..2e86d8a193 100644
--- a/package/pcre2/pcre2.hash
+++ b/package/pcre2/pcre2.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-# https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre2-10.37.tar.bz2.sig
+# Locally calculated after checking pgp signature and compared with the mirror on:
+# http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pcre/pcre2/10.37/pcre2-10.37.tar.bz2.sig
 sha256  4d95a96e8b80529893b4562be12648d798b957b1ba1aae39606bbc2ab956d270  pcre2-10.37.tar.bz2
 # Locally computed
 sha256  9c9488256e3612ec5ea40fd12abe7ec55a58f23bd36e6f465116c2b3cbffba02  LICENCE
diff --git a/package/pcre2/pcre2.mk b/package/pcre2/pcre2.mk
index 220eb8a99c..398e7389f3 100644
--- a/package/pcre2/pcre2.mk
+++ b/package/pcre2/pcre2.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PCRE2_VERSION = 10.37
-PCRE2_SITE = https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre
+PCRE2_SITE = https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/releases/download/pcre2-$(PCRE2_VERSION)
 PCRE2_SOURCE = pcre2-$(PCRE2_VERSION).tar.bz2
 PCRE2_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 PCRE2_LICENSE_FILES = LICENCE