diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nlohmann-json/nlohmann-json_git.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nlohmann-json/nlohmann-json_git.bb
index a89b659..65e49bc 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nlohmann-json/nlohmann-json_git.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nlohmann-json/nlohmann-json_git.bb
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/nlohmann/json.git"
 
-PV = "3.2.0+git${SRCPV}"
+PV = "3.3.0+git${SRCPV}"
 
-SRCREV = "8c20571136f2d5351b379a06ad6591bd980880fe"
+SRCREV = "aafad2be1f3cd259a1e79d2f6fcf267d1ede9ec7"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
@@ -21,3 +21,9 @@
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
+
+# other packages commonly reference the file directly as "json.hpp"
+# create symlink to allow this usage
+do_install_append() {
+    ln -s nlohmann/json.hpp ${D}${includedir}/json.hpp
+}