diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 51b148441..bc2b3f849 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ jobs:
               LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ondrej/php -y
               sudo apt-get -y install curl python3 python3-zmq python3-requests python3-pip python3-nose python3-redis python3-lxml apache2 libapache2-mod-php$php_version libfuzzy-dev
               sudo pip3 install virtualenv # virtualenv must be instaled from pip and not from ubuntu packages
+              # hotfix due to: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81640 TODO: remove after libpcre2-8-0:10.36 gets to stable channel
+              sudo apt install --only-upgrade libpcre2-8-0
               curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/install-poetry.py | python -
               sudo chown $USER:www-data $HOME/.composer
               pushd app