diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3e8dfc62cf..afaddd7003 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
 # Email validation
  ruby-valid-email,
 # JSON
- ruby-json (>= 2.5.1~),
+ ruby-json (>= 2.6.3~),
  ruby-json-schema (>= 2.8.1-2~),
  ruby-json-schemer (>= 0.2.12~),
  ruby-oj (>= 3.14.1-2~),