diff --git a/devel/pcre2/Makefile b/devel/pcre2/Makefile
index cd3070e986df..1abfbd509aa7 100644
--- a/devel/pcre2/Makefile
+++ b/devel/pcre2/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 # Created by: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
 
 PORTNAME=	pcre2
-PORTVERSION=	10.39
+DISTVERSION=	10.39
 CATEGORIES=	devel
+MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/PhilipHazel/${PORTNAME}/releases/download/${PORTNAME}-${DISTVERSION}/
+
 
 MAINTAINER=	krion@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library, version 2
@@ -10,13 +12,9 @@ COMMENT=	Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library, version 2
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENCE
 
-USES=		autoreconf cpe libtool pkgconfig
+USES=		autoreconf cpe libtool pkgconfig tar:bz2
 CPE_VENDOR=	pcre
 
-USE_GITHUB=	yes
-GH_ACCOUNT=	PhilipHazel
-GH_TAGNAME=	35fee41
-
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
diff --git a/devel/pcre2/distinfo b/devel/pcre2/distinfo
index 16b8dd8d4a20..05e4c62165c8 100644
--- a/devel/pcre2/distinfo
+++ b/devel/pcre2/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1635843393
-SHA256 (PhilipHazel-pcre2-10.39-35fee41_GH0.tar.gz) = 601e9a5ebe3245711c5ba5fb597e3b4008a41fa9c10aea28d2548133754622b3
-SIZE (PhilipHazel-pcre2-10.39-35fee41_GH0.tar.gz) = 2383154
+TIMESTAMP = 1635873079
+SHA256 (pcre2-10.39.tar.bz2) = 0f03caf57f81d9ff362ac28cd389c055ec2bf0678d277349a1a4bee00ad6d440
+SIZE (pcre2-10.39.tar.bz2) = 1730729