diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index e8fbe7a357d..653cda0be1e 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2400,3 +2400,4 @@ libgds.so.0 libfbclient-2.5.5.26952_1
 libqxmpp.so.0 qxmpp-0.9.3_1
 libunwind.so.1 llvm-libunwind-3.8.0_1
 libc++abi.so.1 libcxxabi-3.8.0_1
+libfastjson.so.3 libfastjson-0.99.2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libfastjson-devel b/srcpkgs/libfastjson-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..f84842fdcb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libfastjson-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libfastjson
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libfastjson/template b/srcpkgs/libfastjson/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..717216b5db6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libfastjson/template
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Template file for 'libfastjson'
+pkgname=libfastjson
+version=0.99.2
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool"
+short_desc="A JSON implementation in C (json-c fork)"
+maintainer="Michael Gehring <mg@ebfe.org>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="https://github.com/rsyslog/libfastjson"
+distfiles="https://github.com/rsyslog/libfastjson/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=fcdca0c4702362de3db3f02c8da05f985b54a9eccd618af41730409b75d10a8f
+
+pre_configure() {
+	autoreconf -fi
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense COPYING
+}
+
+libfastjson-devel_package() {
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rsyslog/template b/srcpkgs/rsyslog/template
index 7012fd005b7..98a76e0b34c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rsyslog/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rsyslog/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'rsyslog'
 pkgname=rsyslog
-version=8.16.0
+version=8.17.0
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--sbindir=/usr/bin
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://www.rsyslog.com"
 distfiles="${homepage}/files/download/rsyslog/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
-checksum=4fe4f97c10899086d98b9401d7e8d2bcff61c7c3f7cde8627891e36fc6ec1b76
+checksum=ec1e19b5964cf88a9c0508d438248244b71ca35967fe40b842938f4ce9ba5fb9
 
 lib32disabled=yes
 disable_parallel_build=yes
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config postgresql-libs-devel"
-makedepends="json-c-devel gnutls-devel postgresql-libs-devel libee-devel
+makedepends="libfastjson-devel gnutls-devel postgresql-libs-devel libee-devel
  liblogging-devel libmysqlclient-devel mit-krb5-devel"
 conf_files="/etc/rsyslog.conf"
 provides="syslog-daemon-0_1"