diff --git a/metadata/md5-cache/dev-java/json-20240303 b/metadata/md5-cache/dev-java/json-20240303
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..286e4966fe567
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metadata/md5-cache/dev-java/json-20240303
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+DEFINED_PHASES=compile install preinst prepare pretend setup test
+DEPEND=>=virtual/jdk-1.8:* test? ( dev-java/asm:9 dev-java/json-smart:2 dev-java/mockito:4 dev-java/slf4j-api:0 ) >=dev-java/java-config-2.2.0-r3 source? ( app-arch/zip ) test? ( dev-java/junit:4 )
+DESCRIPTION=A reference implementation of a JSON package in Java
+EAPI=8
+HOMEPAGE=https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java
+INHERIT=java-pkg-2 java-pkg-simple check-reqs
+IUSE=doc source test
+KEYWORDS=~amd64 ~x86
+LICENSE=JSON
+RDEPEND=>=virtual/jre-1.8:* >=dev-java/java-config-2.2.0-r3 source? ( app-arch/zip )
+RESTRICT=!test? ( test )
+SLOT=0
+SRC_URI=https://codeload.github.com/stleary/JSON-java/tar.gz/20240303 -> json-20240303.tar.gz test? ( https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/jayway/jsonpath/json-path/2.9.0/json-path-2.9.0.jar )
+_eclasses_=java-utils-2	d2bf348d35fd96d97944269dfbaf0f97	java-pkg-2	b6d755b4f6afabfd933932be28b46368	java-pkg-simple	742531b28b0ce82ba9425bd2c28654f9	check-reqs	02ac7654b64f7acc7a8b1a35ad9d6ddc
+_md5_=adac2045d71cc75620793448db6f67e6
diff --git a/metadata/pkg_desc_index b/metadata/pkg_desc_index
index 57984eb34f57c..5dadcc8e6c0af 100644
--- a/metadata/pkg_desc_index
+++ b/metadata/pkg_desc_index
@@ -4967,7 +4967,7 @@ dev-java/jopt-simple 5.0.4: A Java library for parsing command line options
 dev-java/jrobin 1.6.0-r2: JRobin is a 100% pure Java alternative to RRDTool
 dev-java/jsch 0.1.55: JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2
 dev-java/jsch-agent-proxy 0.0.9: a proxy to ssh-agent and Pageant in Java
-dev-java/json 20231013-r1 20240205-r1: A reference implementation of a JSON package in Java
+dev-java/json 20231013-r1 20240205-r1 20240303: A reference implementation of a JSON package in Java
 dev-java/json-simple 2.3.1: Java 7+ toolkit to quickly develop RFC 4627 JSON compatible applications
 dev-java/json-smart 1.3.3 2.5.0: JSON Small and Fast Parser
 dev-java/jsonrpc2-base 1.38.2: Represent, parse and serialise JSON-RPC 2.0 messages
diff --git a/metadata/timestamp.chk b/metadata/timestamp.chk
index 20cc552df0fc5..8402eaa51f2f7 100644
--- a/metadata/timestamp.chk
+++ b/metadata/timestamp.chk
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Sun, 07 Jul 2024 10:04:12 +0000
+Sun, 07 Jul 2024 10:34:08 +0000