diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre2_10.42.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre2_10.43-RC1.bb
similarity index 60%
rename from meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre2_10.42.bb
rename to meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre2_10.43-RC1.bb
index cd65493c48..59cc320dfe 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre2_10.42.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre2_10.43-RC1.bb
@@ -1,3 +1,43 @@
+# FIXME: the LIC_FILES_CHKSUM values have been updated by 'devtool upgrade'.
+# The following is the difference between the old and the new license text.
+# Please update the LICENSE value if needed, and summarize the changes in
+# the commit message via 'License-Update:' tag.
+# (example: 'License-Update: copyright years updated.')
+#
+# The changes:
+#
+# --- LICENCE
+# +++ LICENCE
+# @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
+#  Retired from University of Cambridge Computing Service,
+#  Cambridge, England.
+#  
+# -Copyright (c) 1997-2022 University of Cambridge
+# +Copyright (c) 1997-2023 University of Cambridge
+#  All rights reserved.
+#  
+#  
+# @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
+#  Email local part: hzmester
+#  Email domain:     freemail.hu
+#  
+# -Copyright(c) 2010-2022 Zoltan Herczeg
+# +Copyright(c) 2010-2023 Zoltan Herczeg
+#  All rights reserved.
+#  
+#  
+# @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
+#  Email local part: hzmester
+#  Email domain:     freemail.hu
+#  
+# -Copyright(c) 2009-2022 Zoltan Herczeg
+# +Copyright(c) 2009-2023 Zoltan Herczeg
+#  All rights reserved.
+#  
+#  
+# 
+#
+
 DESCRIPTION = "There are two major versions of the PCRE library. The \
 newest version is PCRE2, which is a re-working of the original PCRE \
 library to provide an entirely new API. The original, very widely \
@@ -8,14 +48,14 @@ SUMMARY = "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions version 2"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.pcre.org"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENCE;md5=41bfb977e4933c506588724ce69bf5d2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENCE;md5=0ea220f7d7f5a132a97d9e1b2e9ef6e7"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/pcre2-${PV}/pcre2-${PV}.tar.bz2"
 
 GITHUB_BASE_URI = "https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/releases"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "releases/tag/pcre2-(?P<pver>.+)"
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "8d36cd8cb6ea2a4c2bb358ff6411b0c788633a2a45dabbf1aeb4b701d1b5e840"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1d9a325f72ebe70f11778551660373e0a292b6d7c1962c5d069adbef18b96674"
 
 CVE_PRODUCT = "pcre2"