diff --git a/utils/jq/Makefile b/utils/jq/Makefile
index 7a1fcb1e28..053063e33c 100644
--- a/utils/jq/Makefile
+++ b/utils/jq/Makefile
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=jq
-PKG_VERSION:=1.5
-PKG_RELEASE:=2
+PKG_VERSION:=1.6
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
 PKG_LICENSE:=BSD
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-$(PKG_VERSION)/
-PKG_HASH:=c4d2bfec6436341113419debf479d833692cc5cdab7eb0326b5a4d4fbe9f493c
+PKG_HASH:=9625784cf2e4fd9842f1d407681ce4878b5b0dcddbcd31c6135114a30c71e6a8
 
 PKG_INSTALL:=1
 
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ endif
 
 TARGET_CFLAGS += -std=c99
 
+CONFIGURE_ARGS+= \
+	--disable-docs \
+	--disable-valgrind \
+	--without-oniguruma
+
 define Package/jq
   SECTION:=utils
   CATEGORY:=Utilities
diff --git a/utils/jq/patches/001-stack-exhaustion.patch b/utils/jq/patches/001-stack-exhaustion.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d23f61085..0000000000
--- a/utils/jq/patches/001-stack-exhaustion.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-From 2d38a12d686a5156d4e7afb1fed7851805590582 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: W-Mark Kubacki <wmark@hurrikane.de>
-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 19:50:39 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Skip printing at MAX_DEPTH and deeper
-
-This addresses #1136, and mitigates a stack exhaustion when printing
-a very deeply nested term.
----
- src/jv_print.c | 8 +++++++-
- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/jv_print.c b/src/jv_print.c
-index 5f4f234..cf6651b 100644
---- src/jv_print.c
-+++ src/jv_print.c
-@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
- #include "jv_dtoa.h"
- #include "jv_unicode.h"
-
-+#ifndef MAX_DEPTH
-+#define MAX_DEPTH 256
-+#endif
-+
- #define ESC "\033"
- #define COL(c) (ESC "[" c "m")
- #define COLRESET (ESC "[0m")
-@@ -150,7 +154,9 @@ static void jv_dump_term(struct dtoa_context* C, jv x, int flags, int indent, FI
-       }
-     }
-   }
--  switch (jv_get_kind(x)) {
-+  if (indent > MAX_DEPTH) {
-+    put_str("<stripped: exceeds max depth>", F, S, flags & JV_PRINT_ISATTY);
-+  } else switch (jv_get_kind(x)) {
-   default:
-   case JV_KIND_INVALID:
-     if (flags & JV_PRINT_INVALID) {
diff --git a/utils/jq/patches/002-heap-buffer-overflow.patch b/utils/jq/patches/002-heap-buffer-overflow.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ecfbd71c90..0000000000
--- a/utils/jq/patches/002-heap-buffer-overflow.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-From 8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Nicolas Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
-Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 17:24:57 -0500
-Subject: [PATCH] Heap buffer overflow in tokenadd() (fix #105)
-
-This was an off-by one: the NUL terminator byte was not allocated on
-resize.  This was triggered by JSON-encoded numbers longer than 256
-bytes.
----
- src/jv_parse.c | 4 ++--
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/jv_parse.c b/src/jv_parse.c
-index 3102ed4..84245b8 100644
---- src/jv_parse.c
-+++ src/jv_parse.c
-@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ static pfunc stream_token(struct jv_parser* p, char ch) {
-
- static void tokenadd(struct jv_parser* p, char c) {
-   assert(p->tokenpos <= p->tokenlen);
--  if (p->tokenpos == p->tokenlen) {
-+  if (p->tokenpos >= (p->tokenlen - 1)) {
-     p->tokenlen = p->tokenlen*2 + 256;
-     p->tokenbuf = jv_mem_realloc(p->tokenbuf, p->tokenlen);
-   }
-@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static pfunc check_literal(struct jv_parser* p) {
-     TRY(value(p, v));
-   } else {
-     // FIXME: better parser
--    p->tokenbuf[p->tokenpos] = 0; // FIXME: invalid
-+    p->tokenbuf[p->tokenpos] = 0;
-     char* end = 0;
-     double d = jvp_strtod(&p->dtoa, p->tokenbuf, &end);
-     if (end == 0 || *end != 0)