Centos PCRE repo is 6.6, and cannot be YUM REMOVED without removing hundred of dependancies…
I needed to install PCRE with unicode support which meant compiling my own package.
First you need to install all the correct libs
yum install gcc-c++
then download latest pcre from
http://www.pcre.org/
unpack and configure
./configure --prefix=/usr
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/pcre-8.10
--enable-utf8
--enable-unicode-properties
make
make check
make install
the libraries will be installed to /usr/lib and you will need to add a new path for your DSO loader create a file called pcre.conf in the directory
/etc/ld.so.conf.d
and insert the path
/usr/lib
save and close and update the cache by running
ldconfig
restart your web server and check phpinfo that your PCRE module has been updated to 8.11 (or latest).