diff --git a/package/json-glib/json-glib.hash b/package/json-glib/json-glib.hash
index bf85770fea..2f190ab934 100644
--- a/package/json-glib/json-glib.hash
+++ b/package/json-glib/json-glib.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# From http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/json-glib/1.2/json-glib-1.2.6.sha256sum
-sha256 958fa59909ef28399c811aff29a5340b330b20660ca3586b4c5aa3a53997776c  json-glib-1.2.6.tar.xz
+# From http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/json-glib/1.2/json-glib-1.2.8.sha256sum
+sha256 fd55a9037d39e7a10f0db64309f5f0265fa32ec962bf85066087b83a2807f40a  json-glib-1.2.8.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/json-glib/json-glib.mk b/package/json-glib/json-glib.mk
index 8b8a3cf2f1..c0db671b37 100644
--- a/package/json-glib/json-glib.mk
+++ b/package/json-glib/json-glib.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 JSON_GLIB_VERSION_MAJOR = 1.2
-JSON_GLIB_VERSION = $(JSON_GLIB_VERSION_MAJOR).6
+JSON_GLIB_VERSION = $(JSON_GLIB_VERSION_MAJOR).8
 JSON_GLIB_SITE = http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/json-glib/$(JSON_GLIB_VERSION_MAJOR)
 JSON_GLIB_SOURCE = json-glib-$(JSON_GLIB_VERSION).tar.xz
 JSON_GLIB_LICENSE = LGPLv2.1+