diff --git a/devel/json-c/Makefile b/devel/json-c/Makefile
index cc5b9aebebde..4ecd723a6740 100644
--- a/devel/json-c/Makefile
+++ b/devel/json-c/Makefile
@@ -1,28 +1,27 @@
 # Created by: gno@yahoo-inc.com
 
 PORTNAME=	json-c
-PORTVERSION=	0.15
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	0.16
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases/releases/ \
 		LOCAL/sunpoet
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) implementation in C
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 USES=		cmake compiler:c11 cpe
 
-CMAKE_OFF=	BUILD_DOCUMENTATION
-CMAKE_ON=	BUILD_SHARED_LIBS BUILD_STATIC_LIBS DISABLE_WERROR
+CMAKE_OFF=	DISABLE_BSYMBOLIC DISABLE_JSON_POINTER DISABLE_THREAD_LOCAL_STORAGE ENABLE_RDRAND ENABLE_THREADING OVERRIDE_GET_RANDOM_SEED
+CMAKE_ON=	BUILD_SHARED_LIBS BUILD_STATIC_LIBS DISABLE_EXTRA_LIBS DISABLE_WERROR
 TEST_TARGET=	test
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 CPE_VENDOR=	json-c_project
 
 post-install:
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/json_object_private.h ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/include/json-c/
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/json-c/distinfo b/devel/json-c/distinfo
index 420ac3a1b588..36f7466ac483 100644
--- a/devel/json-c/distinfo
+++ b/devel/json-c/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1597081472
-SHA256 (json-c-0.15.tar.gz) = b8d80a1ddb718b3ba7492916237bbf86609e9709fb007e7f7d4322f02341a4c6
-SIZE (json-c-0.15.tar.gz) = 361488
+TIMESTAMP = 1650228674
+SHA256 (json-c-0.16.tar.gz) = 8e45ac8f96ec7791eaf3bb7ee50e9c2100bbbc87b8d0f1d030c5ba8a0288d96b
+SIZE (json-c-0.16.tar.gz) = 351916
diff --git a/devel/json-c/files/patch-CMakeLists.txt b/devel/json-c/files/patch-CMakeLists.txt
index 152f9d0ff1f5..6b0b4eb19eb9 100644
--- a/devel/json-c/files/patch-CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/devel/json-c/files/patch-CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
 Avoid use of newlocale(3) that results in increasing memory usage
 
---- CMakeLists.txt.orig	2020-07-26 15:08:19 UTC
+--- CMakeLists.txt.orig	2022-04-14 01:09:51 UTC
 +++ CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ if (HAVE_STDLIB_H)
+@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ if (HAVE_STDLIB_H)
  endif()
  if (HAVE_LOCALE_H)
      check_symbol_exists(setlocale   "locale.h" HAVE_SETLOCALE)
 -    check_symbol_exists(uselocale   "locale.h" HAVE_USELOCALE)
 +    # check_symbol_exists(uselocale   "locale.h" HAVE_USELOCALE)
  endif()
  if (HAVE_STRINGS_H)
      check_symbol_exists(strcasecmp  "strings.h" HAVE_STRCASECMP)
+@@ -432,8 +432,6 @@ configure_file(json.h.cmakein ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/js
+ 
+ include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR})
+ include_directories(${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR})
+-
+-add_subdirectory(doc)
+ 
+ # "uninstall" custom target for make generators in unix like operating systems
+ # and if that target is not present
diff --git a/devel/json-c/pkg-plist b/devel/json-c/pkg-plist
index 7d0971f7e6bc..ce69d8eeee65 100644
--- a/devel/json-c/pkg-plist
+++ b/devel/json-c/pkg-plist
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 include/json-c/arraylist.h
 include/json-c/debug.h
 include/json-c/json.h
 include/json-c/json_c_version.h
 include/json-c/json_config.h
 include/json-c/json_inttypes.h
 include/json-c/json_object.h
 include/json-c/json_object_iterator.h
 include/json-c/json_object_private.h
 include/json-c/json_pointer.h
 include/json-c/json_tokener.h
 include/json-c/json_types.h
 include/json-c/json_util.h
 include/json-c/json_visit.h
 include/json-c/linkhash.h
 include/json-c/printbuf.h
 lib/cmake/json-c/json-c-config.cmake
 lib/cmake/json-c/json-c-targets-%%CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE%%.cmake
 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
 libdata/pkgconfig/json-c.pc