diff --git a/packages/json-c/build.sh b/packages/json-c/build.sh
index d366b1a173..3dd2220024 100644
--- a/packages/json-c/build.sh
+++ b/packages/json-c/build.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ 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=0.16
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="0.17"
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases/releases/json-c-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=8e45ac8f96ec7791eaf3bb7ee50e9c2100bbbc87b8d0f1d030c5ba8a0288d96b
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=7550914d58fb63b2c3546f3ccfbe11f1c094147bd31a69dcd23714d7956159e6
+TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="json-c-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="json-c-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="