diff --git a/package/jsoncpp/jsoncpp.hash b/package/jsoncpp/jsoncpp.hash
index 99266ae42d..0fa9b89422 100644
--- a/package/jsoncpp/jsoncpp.hash
+++ b/package/jsoncpp/jsoncpp.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  f409856e5920c18d0c2fb85276e24ee607d2a09b5e7d5f0a371368903c275da2  jsoncpp-1.9.5.tar.gz
+sha256  f93b6dd7ce796b13d02c108bc9f79812245a82e577581c4c9aabe57075c90ea2  jsoncpp-1.9.6.tar.gz
 sha256  cec0db5f6d7ed6b3a72647bd50aed02e13c3377fd44382b96dc2915534c042ad  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/jsoncpp/jsoncpp.mk b/package/jsoncpp/jsoncpp.mk
index 5ef62befbc..9915907ea8 100644
--- a/package/jsoncpp/jsoncpp.mk
+++ b/package/jsoncpp/jsoncpp.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-JSONCPP_VERSION = 1.9.5
+JSONCPP_VERSION = 1.9.6
 JSONCPP_SITE = $(call github,open-source-parsers,jsoncpp,$(JSONCPP_VERSION))
 JSONCPP_LICENSE = Public Domain or MIT
 JSONCPP_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE