Cannot start Julia 1.7 rc2

I cannot launch Julia 1.7 rc2 after updating to Monterey (macOS 12.0). When I try to launch it in the Terminal, I get the error:

fatal: error thrown and no exception handler available.
InitError(mod=:Sys, error=ErrorException("PCRE compilation error: unrecognised compile-time option bit(s) at offset 0"))
error at ./error.jl:33
compile at ./pcre.jl:155
compile at ./regex.jl:82
#occursin#442 at ./regex.jl:265 [inlined]
occursin at ./regex.jl:265 [inlined]
isdirpath at ./path.jl:117 [inlined]
normpath at ./path.jl:369
abspath at ./path.jl:426
abspath at ./path.jl:435 [inlined]
__init_build at ./sysinfo.jl:125
__init__ at ./sysinfo.jl:117
jfptr___init___27501.clone_1 at /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib (unknown line)
jl_apply_generic at /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/libjulia-internal.1.7.dylib (unknown line)
jl_module_run_initializer at /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/libjulia-internal.1.7.dylib (unknown line)
_finish_julia_init at /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/libjulia-internal.1.7.dylib (unknown line)
julia_init at /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/libjulia-internal.1.7.dylib (unknown line)
jl_repl_entrypoint at /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/libjulia-internal.1.7.dylib (unknown line)

Julia 1.6 is still working though.

Mind opening an issue?

Edit: for the record, the issue was opened at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/42875