I am happy to announce the release of lrexlib 2.9.0, Lua binding for regex libraries. * Add PCRE2 support. Install it as luarocks lrexlib-gnu-2.9.0, lrexlib-oniguruma-2.9.0, lrexlib-pcre-2.9.0, lrexlib-pcre2-2.9.0, lrexlib-posix-2.9.0, lrexlib-tre-2.9.0 (see http://luarocks.org/ ) Most simply: luarocks install lrexlib lrexlib's home page is at http://github.com/rrthomas/lrexlib