diff --git a/package/json-for-modern-cpp/json-for-modern-cpp.hash b/package/json-for-modern-cpp/json-for-modern-cpp.hash
index cff01db74c..47e6a5e59a 100644
--- a/package/json-for-modern-cpp/json-for-modern-cpp.hash
+++ b/package/json-for-modern-cpp/json-for-modern-cpp.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256	e0b1fc6cc6ca05706cce99118a87aca5248bd9db3113e703023d23f044995c1d	json-v3.5.0.tar.gz
-sha256	7b875bb7a4e28abb7956ea821b4b7d88ff6a2a4fabf261c3993730a365ec56dd	LICENSE.MIT
+sha256	80c45b090e40bf3d7a7f2a6e9f36206d3ff710acfa8d8cc1f8c763bb3075e22e	json-v3.6.1.tar.gz
+sha256	7400586ce89c6a2cc65f6ca46997da5d356a230673d3a211e040b783f23578a1	LICENSE.MIT
diff --git a/package/json-for-modern-cpp/json-for-modern-cpp.mk b/package/json-for-modern-cpp/json-for-modern-cpp.mk
index 86399fd60d..09dbf30839 100644
--- a/package/json-for-modern-cpp/json-for-modern-cpp.mk
+++ b/package/json-for-modern-cpp/json-for-modern-cpp.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-JSON_FOR_MODERN_CPP_VERSION = v3.5.0
+JSON_FOR_MODERN_CPP_VERSION = v3.6.1
 JSON_FOR_MODERN_CPP_SOURCE = json-$(JSON_FOR_MODERN_CPP_VERSION).tar.gz
 JSON_FOR_MODERN_CPP_SITE = $(call github,nlohmann,json,$(JSON_FOR_MODERN_CPP_VERSION))
 JSON_FOR_MODERN_CPP_LICENSE = MIT