diff --git a/packages/devel/json-c/package.mk b/packages/devel/json-c/package.mk
index 32b71e29ce..07a7057032 100644
--- a/packages/devel/json-c/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/json-c/package.mk
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 
 PKG_NAME="json-c"
 PKG_VERSION="0.18"
-PKG_SHA256="8069b5e6100bb8b9908dcfdd368f0e99bdeea2cb139cba558e536715c8c8ac8e"
+PKG_SHA256="876ab046479166b869afc6896d288183bbc0e5843f141200c677b3e8dfb11724"
 PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 PKG_SITE="https://github.com/json-c/json-c"
-PKG_URL="https://github.com/json-c/json-c/archive/json-c-${PKG_VERSION%-*}.tar.gz"
+PKG_URL="https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases/releases/json-c-${PKG_VERSION%-*}.tar.gz"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Implements a reference counting object model that allows you to easily construct JSON objects in C."