diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.15.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.16.bb
similarity index 87%
rename from meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.15.bb
rename to meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.16.bb
index a4673a2f0e..fdec5ec9af 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.15.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.16.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=de54b60fbbc35123ba193fea8ee216f2"
 
 SRC_URI = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases/releases/${BP}.tar.gz"
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b8d80a1ddb718b3ba7492916237bbf86609e9709fb007e7f7d4322f02341a4c6"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "8e45ac8f96ec7791eaf3bb7ee50e9c2100bbbc87b8d0f1d030c5ba8a0288d96b"
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/${BPN}/${BPN}/tags"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "json-c-(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)-\d+"