diff --git a/devel/universal-ctags/Makefile b/devel/universal-ctags/Makefile
index 8e626d17e6dc..f387ceabe9e6 100644
--- a/devel/universal-ctags/Makefile
+++ b/devel/universal-ctags/Makefile
@@ -1,45 +1,49 @@
 # Created by: Derek Schrock <dereks@lifeofadishwasher.com>
 
 PORTNAME=	universal-ctags
-PORTVERSION=	p5.9.20211017.0
+PORTVERSION=	p5.9.20211128.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 
 MAINTAINER=	dereks@lifeofadishwasher.com
 COMMENT=	Fork of Exuberant Ctags to generate index/tag files
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 USES=		autoreconf gmake pkgconfig
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_PROJECT=	ctags
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--program-prefix=u
 
 TEST_TARGET=	check
 
-OPTIONS_DEFINE=		DEBUG ICONV JSON LIBXML2 MANPAGES YAML
-OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	ICONV JSON LIBXML2 MANPAGES YAML
+OPTIONS_DEFINE=		DEBUG ICONV JSON LIBXML2 MANPAGES PCRE2 YAML
+OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	${OPTIONS_DEFINE:NDEBUG}
 OPTIONS_SUB=		yes
 
 JSON_DESC=	JSON output support
+PCRE2_DESC=	${PCRE_DESC} v2
 
 DEBUG_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	debugging
 
 ICONV_USES=		iconv
 ICONV_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	iconv
 
 # Extra support for YAML and XML based languages
 JSON_LIB_DEPENDS=	libjansson.so:devel/jansson
 JSON_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	json
 
 LIBXML2_LIB_DEPENDS=		libxml2.so:textproc/libxml2
 LIBXML2_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	xml
 
 MANPAGES_BUILD_DEPENDS=	rst2man:textproc/py-docutils
 
+PCRE2_LIB_DEPENDS=	libpcre2-8.so:devel/pcre2
+PCRE2_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	pcre2
+
 YAML_LIB_DEPENDS=	libyaml.so:textproc/libyaml
 YAML_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	yaml
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/universal-ctags/distinfo b/devel/universal-ctags/distinfo
index 2f4c89380720..713561f5d36e 100644
--- a/devel/universal-ctags/distinfo
+++ b/devel/universal-ctags/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1634954909
-SHA256 (universal-ctags-ctags-p5.9.20211017.0_GH0.tar.gz) = a755ddb11b6635a1e0ca64ce9b647d8a567f04b59da03ebd548e7ef07c699ad3
-SIZE (universal-ctags-ctags-p5.9.20211017.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 2542128
+TIMESTAMP = 1638660697
+SHA256 (universal-ctags-ctags-p5.9.20211128.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 86682b1e3c5691f2a3cfeca1d9f6e27b0dab64dd4817e1ad5ed604fd78f811d6
+SIZE (universal-ctags-ctags-p5.9.20211128.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 2784436