diff --git a/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.hash b/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0a1e7cacd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# retrieved by scancpan from http://cpan.metacpan.org/
+md5    70957d3df2ea67f8e2c760166fce7b24 JSON-Tiny-0.53.tar.gz
+sha256 37e547c5b5b7f4dd9adf00db7c77454f3451f79c1be93ef11d4f2ddc9c10aad9 JSON-Tiny-0.53.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.mk b/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.mk
index 7ee611d030..ddc50aca9f 100644
--- a/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.mk
+++ b/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PERL_JSON_TINY_VERSION = 0.50
+PERL_JSON_TINY_VERSION = 0.53
 PERL_JSON_TINY_SOURCE = JSON-Tiny-$(PERL_JSON_TINY_VERSION).tar.gz
 PERL_JSON_TINY_SITE = $(BR2_CPAN_MIRROR)/authors/id/D/DA/DAVIDO
 PERL_JSON_TINY_DEPENDENCIES = perl