diff --git a/package/jq/jq.hash b/package/jq/jq.hash
index 344f73d463..4596134620 100644
--- a/package/jq/jq.hash
+++ b/package/jq/jq.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  91811577f91d9a6195ff50c2bffec9b72c8429dc05ec3ea022fd95c06d2b319c  jq-1.8.0.tar.gz
-sha256  ea9e53f5974239869c51ace8bb6849c9751dee7c9d592180957987a1a133caff  COPYING
+sha256  2be64e7129cecb11d5906290eba10af694fb9e3e7f9fc208a311dc33ca837eb0  jq-1.8.1.tar.gz
+sha256  ad2b4a266b2268939c1446979759706077421cf906a203aa188c6f396e8cfd74  COPYING
diff --git a/package/jq/jq.mk b/package/jq/jq.mk
index f3f4704f37..b0776021fc 100644
--- a/package/jq/jq.mk
+++ b/package/jq/jq.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-JQ_VERSION = 1.8.0
+JQ_VERSION = 1.8.1
 JQ_SITE = https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/download/jq-$(JQ_VERSION)
-JQ_LICENSE = MIT (code), ICU (decNumber), CC-BY-3.0 (documentation)
+JQ_LICENSE = MIT (code), ICU (decNumber), CC-BY-3.0 (documentation), \
+	BSD-2-Clause (strptime)
 JQ_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 JQ_CPE_ID_VALID = YES
 JQ_INSTALL_STAGING = YES