diff --git a/textproc/json-c/Makefile b/textproc/json-c/Makefile
index cd4b399ed42d..66eabab73119 100644
--- a/textproc/json-c/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/json-c/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.17 2020/10/01 09:16:12 wiz Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.18 2022/04/20 20:32:32 wiz Exp $
 
-DISTNAME=	json-c-0.15
+DISTNAME=	json-c-0.16
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 MASTER_SITES=	https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases/releases/
 
diff --git a/textproc/json-c/PLIST b/textproc/json-c/PLIST
index 7d9d90081f8a..12f925cb8bcb 100644
--- a/textproc/json-c/PLIST
+++ b/textproc/json-c/PLIST
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.7 2020/10/01 09:16:12 wiz Exp $
+@comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.8 2022/04/20 20:32:32 wiz Exp $
 include/json-c/arraylist.h
 include/json-c/debug.h
 include/json-c/json.h
@@ -20,5 +20,5 @@ lib/cmake/json-c/json-c-targets.cmake
 lib/libjson-c.a
 lib/libjson-c.so
 lib/libjson-c.so.5
-lib/libjson-c.so.5.1.0
+lib/libjson-c.so.5.2.0
 lib/pkgconfig/json-c.pc
diff --git a/textproc/json-c/distinfo b/textproc/json-c/distinfo
index f12d133cb5bd..acf2e284ef1e 100644
--- a/textproc/json-c/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/json-c/distinfo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.12 2021/10/26 11:22:13 nia Exp $
+$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.13 2022/04/20 20:32:32 wiz Exp $
 
-BLAKE2s (json-c-0.15.tar.gz) = f7f2484e87578c861d8c551b73bf325a5ff445c008f0b09cc60b0389057d154f
-SHA512 (json-c-0.15.tar.gz) = dc01298bcc78f0f31a34f5fcfe45c0feebfd88518e97fb4f96f1a652f71ccdd303415a4c7bf5b573bdcbcca80428281f0dfccefc6545ea3a7f18dbb819332f34
-Size (json-c-0.15.tar.gz) = 361488 bytes
+BLAKE2s (json-c-0.16.tar.gz) = a469678fa9d8a37b053d19100a212643221e6f112b0ba8cf50c7a89657cb35b1
+SHA512 (json-c-0.16.tar.gz) = 255cff99033340b2c2678255d41dae7808f83ed0c102e693d2d9e186bd1f21dd1385fcaa360c0fc087a00965a9567fbda733370e6b518a9be2f1bb0a80439151
+Size (json-c-0.16.tar.gz) = 351916 bytes