Add PCRE2 support to ModSecurity v2 · Issue #2737 · owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity (original) (raw)

The legacy PCRE implementation (more recently referred to as PCRE1) is no longer being updated, with v8.45 (from June 2021) expected to be the final version.

Also, Apache HTTP Server recently (as of 2.4.53) changed to support PCRE2.

Given the above, ModSecurity v2.9.x should be updated to support PCRE2 (as has already been done for the ModSecurity v3 branch via #2668 ).