diff --git a/doc/release-notes/rl-2611.section.md b/doc/release-notes/rl-2611.section.md
index 9cc8a76445be..627d57573989 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes/rl-2611.section.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes/rl-2611.section.md
@@ -125,6 +125,8 @@
 
 - `librest` providing 0.7 ABI was removed. `librest_1_0` providing 1.0 ABI was renamed to `librest` and `librest_1_0` was kept as an alias.
 
+- `luaPackages.lrexlib-pcre` has been removed as part of the process to fully migrate from the end-of-life PRCE library to PCRE2. `luaPackages.lrexlib-pcre2` and multiple other versions of lrexlib can be used instead.
+
 - `pnpm_10` was upgraded to version 10.34.1+, which introduced stricter integrity checks. If you encounter `ERR_PNPM_MISSING_TARBALL_INTEGRITY`, you can fall back to the older `pnpm_10_34_0`.
 
 - `fetchPnpmDeps`' `fetcherVersion = 1` and `fetcherVersion = 2` have been
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index 3c509e9e2f52..dd50dc7154e1 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ lpeg_patterns,,,,,,
 lpeglabel,,,,1.6.0,,
 lrexlib-gnu,,,,,,
 lrexlib-oniguruma,,,,,,junestepp
-lrexlib-pcre,,,,,,
 lrexlib-pcre2,,,,,,wishstudio
 lrexlib-posix,,,,,,
 lsp-progress.nvim,,,,,5.1,gepbird
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index 2760474d071f..12eb150be38c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -1922,45 +1922,6 @@ final: prev: {
     }
   ) { };
 
-  lrexlib-pcre = callPackage (
-    {
-      buildLuarocksPackage,
-      fetchFromGitHub,
-      fetchurl,
-      luaOlder,
-    }:
-    buildLuarocksPackage {
-      pname = "lrexlib-pcre";
-      version = "2.9.3-1";
-      knownRockspec =
-        (fetchurl {
-          url = "mirror://luarocks/lrexlib-pcre-2.9.3-1.rockspec";
-          sha256 = "1pwwzc12a6dl5i4i8gl5i0r8aabqfpmdfrlj0fkvj5v56v9bkw09";
-        }).outPath;
-      src = fetchFromGitHub {
-        owner = "rrthomas";
-        repo = "lrexlib";
-        tag = "rel-2-9-3";
-        hash = "sha256-7lybrMvNk2YhXish01PQlMpRVW+qlFj03RO33zmgGp4=";
-      };
-
-      disabled = luaOlder "5.1";
-
-      meta = {
-        homepage = "https://github.com/rrthomas/lrexlib";
-        license = lib.licenses.AND [
-          lib.licenses.mit
-          lib.licenses.x11
-        ];
-        description = "Regular expression library binding (PCRE flavour).";
-        longDescription = ''
-          Lrexlib is a regular expression library for Lua 5.1-5.4, which
-          provides bindings for several regular expression libraries.
-          This rock provides the PCRE bindings.'';
-      };
-    }
-  ) { };
-
   lrexlib-pcre2 = callPackage (
     {
       buildLuarocksPackage,
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
index 0bbadc0ac269..0b584b579851 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # do not add pkgs, it messes up splicing
 {
   stdenv,
+  config,
   cargo,
   cmake,
 
@@ -44,7 +45,6 @@
   oniguruma,
   openldap,
   openssl,
-  pcre,
   pcre2,
   pkg-config,
   readline,
@@ -427,15 +427,6 @@ in
     ];
   };
 
-  lrexlib-pcre = prev.lrexlib-pcre.overrideAttrs {
-    externalDeps = [
-      {
-        name = "PCRE";
-        dep = pcre;
-      }
-    ];
-  };
-
   lrexlib-pcre2 = prev.lrexlib-pcre2.overrideAttrs {
     externalDeps = [
       {
@@ -1344,3 +1335,6 @@ in
 
   # keep-sorted end
 }
+// lib.optionalAttrs config.allowAliases {
+  lrexlib-pcre = throw "lrexlib-pcre was removed as the PCRE library is end-of-life"; # added 2026-08-03
+}