diff --git a/buildroot-external/package/python-json-database/python-json-database.hash b/buildroot-external/package/python-json-database/python-json-database.hash
index 8b327d80..2e69ba29 100644
--- a/buildroot-external/package/python-json-database/python-json-database.hash
+++ b/buildroot-external/package/python-json-database/python-json-database.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/json-database/json
-md5  4d24414c6cf394fbc75ad37297a88351  json_database-0.5.2.tar.gz
-sha256  822ddf0525f5c09de85846d210a6775fba82094d3378fa7352511b5d1f0d1b09  json_database-0.5.2.tar.gz
+# sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/json-database/json
+sha256  68745b1265e37e21bd5af8df1f2ef8225ed0c99eddc3aed426b7472ec0669abb  json_database-0.5.6.tar.gz
diff --git a/buildroot-external/package/python-json-database/python-json-database.mk b/buildroot-external/package/python-json-database/python-json-database.mk
index 99a73767..f54a99f9 100644
--- a/buildroot-external/package/python-json-database/python-json-database.mk
+++ b/buildroot-external/package/python-json-database/python-json-database.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_JSON_DATABASE_VERSION = 0.5.2
+PYTHON_JSON_DATABASE_VERSION = 0.5.6
 PYTHON_JSON_DATABASE_SOURCE = json_database-$(PYTHON_JSON_DATABASE_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_JSON_DATABASE_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e1/f0/3a50ed9deed6b55697e30d874605900a5694e8653b9d9747597b1a670dee
+PYTHON_JSON_DATABASE_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b1/2b/545bb5cafe2cd3876475669c12f31bb1076b609177f16d6efaeb214d038c
 PYTHON_JSON_DATABASE_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
 
 $(eval $(python-package))