diff --git a/package/json-glib/json-glib.hash b/package/json-glib/json-glib.hash
index 0c3cf7f7f7..b78d708391 100644
--- a/package/json-glib/json-glib.hash
+++ b/package/json-glib/json-glib.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/json-glib/1.6/json-glib-1.6.6.sha256sum
-sha256  96ec98be7a91f6dde33636720e3da2ff6ecbb90e76ccaa49497f31a6855a490e  json-glib-1.6.6.tar.xz
+# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/json-glib/1.8/json-glib-1.8.0.sha256sum
+sha256  97ef5eb92ca811039ad50a65f06633f1aae64792789307be7170795d8b319454  json-glib-1.8.0.tar.xz
 
 # Hash for license file:
 sha256  a190dc9c8043755d90f8b0a75fa66b9e42d4af4c980bf5ddc633f0124db3cee7  COPYING
diff --git a/package/json-glib/json-glib.mk b/package/json-glib/json-glib.mk
index b7ff0bfd57..cd53f24cee 100644
--- a/package/json-glib/json-glib.mk
+++ b/package/json-glib/json-glib.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-JSON_GLIB_VERSION_MAJOR = 1.6
-JSON_GLIB_VERSION = $(JSON_GLIB_VERSION_MAJOR).6
+JSON_GLIB_VERSION_MAJOR = 1.8
+JSON_GLIB_VERSION = $(JSON_GLIB_VERSION_MAJOR).0
 JSON_GLIB_SITE = https://download.gnome.org/sources/json-glib/$(JSON_GLIB_VERSION_MAJOR)
 JSON_GLIB_SOURCE = json-glib-$(JSON_GLIB_VERSION).tar.xz
 JSON_GLIB_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ else
 JSON_GLIB_CONF_OPTS += -Dintrospection=disabled
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_SYSTEM_ENABLE_NLS),y)
+JSON_GLIB_CONF_OPTS += -Dnls=enabled
+else
+JSON_GLIB_CONF_OPTS += -Dnls=disabled
+endif
+
 JSON_GLIB_LDFLAGS = $(TARGET_LDFLAGS) $(TARGET_NLS_LIBS)
 
 $(eval $(meson-package))