diff --git a/packages/json-c/build.sh b/packages/json-c/build.sh
index 8947896b3..0601e30c1 100644
--- a/packages/json-c/build.sh
+++ b/packages/json-c/build.sh
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="A JSON implementation in C"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.15
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.16
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases/releases/json-c-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=b8d80a1ddb718b3ba7492916237bbf86609e9709fb007e7f7d4322f02341a4c6
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=8e45ac8f96ec7791eaf3bb7ee50e9c2100bbbc87b8d0f1d030c5ba8a0288d96b
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="json-c-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="json-c-dev"