diff --git a/package/json-c/json-c.hash b/package/json-c/json-c.hash
index 44d068a8b4..c9bb8c708b 100644
--- a/package/json-c/json-c.hash
+++ b/package/json-c/json-c.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # From https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki
-sha256  8e45ac8f96ec7791eaf3bb7ee50e9c2100bbbc87b8d0f1d030c5ba8a0288d96b  json-c-0.16.tar.gz
+sha256  7550914d58fb63b2c3546f3ccfbe11f1c094147bd31a69dcd23714d7956159e6  json-c-0.17.tar.gz
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  74c1e6ca5eba76b54d0ad00d4815c8315c1b3bc45ff99de61d103dc92486284c  COPYING
diff --git a/package/json-c/json-c.mk b/package/json-c/json-c.mk
index 9af7f9a83e..517acee4db 100644
--- a/package/json-c/json-c.mk
+++ b/package/json-c/json-c.mk
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-JSON_C_VERSION = 0.16
+JSON_C_VERSION = 0.17
 JSON_C_SITE = https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases/releases
 JSON_C_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 JSON_C_LICENSE = MIT
 JSON_C_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 JSON_C_CPE_ID_VENDOR = json-c_project
-JSON_C_CONF_OPTS = -DDISABLE_EXTRA_LIBS=ON
+JSON_C_CONF_OPTS = -DBUILD_APPS=OFF -DDISABLE_EXTRA_LIBS=ON
 
 $(eval $(cmake-package))
 $(eval $(host-cmake-package))