diff --git a/packages/python/system/simplejson/meta b/packages/python/system/simplejson/meta
index 331de6fec7..7ac00deaaf 100644
--- a/packages/python/system/simplejson/meta
+++ b/packages/python/system/simplejson/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="simplejson"
-PKG_VERSION="2.1.6"
+PKG_VERSION="2.6.2"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
diff --git a/packages/python/system/simplejson/patches/simplejson-2.6.2-setuptools.patch b/packages/python/system/simplejson/patches/simplejson-2.6.2-setuptools.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dd1ecb8d65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python/system/simplejson/patches/simplejson-2.6.2-setuptools.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur simplejson-2.6.2/setup.py simplejson-2.6.2.patch/setup.py
+--- simplejson-2.6.2/setup.py	2012-09-21 21:25:54.000000000 +0200
++++ simplejson-2.6.2.patch/setup.py	2012-11-06 20:22:56.327643425 +0100
+@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+ #!/usr/bin/env python
+ 
+ import sys
+-from distutils.core import setup, Extension, Command
++from setuptools import setup, Extension, Command
+ from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
+ from distutils.errors import CCompilerError, DistutilsExecError, \
+     DistutilsPlatformError