diff --git a/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.hash b/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.hash
index 0a1e7cacd8..4b6bb89ce8 100644
--- a/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.hash
+++ b/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.hash
@@ -1,3 +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
+md5    52a57f8bd5b7727bc0ee8c4591431045 JSON-Tiny-0.56.tar.gz
+sha256 f5e3eecd278ddc0b15e3b3d8d108f89fa47cc039852bdb80b909b6bc1b538d04 JSON-Tiny-0.56.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.mk b/package/perl-json-tiny/perl-json-tiny.mk
index 7a2a42e048..3892da601a 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 = 0.53
+PERL_JSON_TINY_VERSION = 0.56
 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_LICENSE = Artistic-2.0