diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.12.bb b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.12.bb
index cfef03d..1a5c394 100644
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.12.bb
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.12.bb
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "3ca4bbb881dfc4017e8021b5e0a8c491"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "000c01b2b3f82dcb4261751eb71f1b084404fb7d6a282f06074d3c17078b9f3f"
 
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "json-c-(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+).tar"
+# json-c releases page is fetching the list of releases in some weird XML format
+# from https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases and processes it with javascript :-/
+#UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases/releases/index.html"
+RECIPE_UPSTREAM_VERSION = "0.12"
+RECIPE_UPSTREAM_DATE = "Apr 11, 2014"
+CHECK_DATE = "Dec 04, 2015"
+
 RPROVIDES_${PN} = "libjson"
 
 inherit autotools