diff --git a/extra/glib/build b/extra/glib/build
index 831624a4..0add508d 100755
--- a/extra/glib/build
+++ b/extra/glib/build
@@ -23,31 +23,4 @@ meson \
 ninja -C build
 ninja -C build install
 
-# json-glib is a separate package which we build alongside
-# glib (as if they were one and the same). The upstream for
-# json-glib is effectively dead (only translation work) so
-# this makes my life a little easier..
-{
-    cd json-glib
-
-    # This mess of CFLAGS, etc is needed to point json-glib to
-    # the freshly built glib sources instead of the system's.
-    export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$1/usr/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
-    export PATH="$1/usr/bin:$PATH"
-    export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$1/usr/include/glib-2.0"
-    export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$1/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -pthread"
-    export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$1/usr/lib/"
-
-    meson \
-        --prefix=/usr \
-        --sysconfdir=/etc \
-        --mandir=/usr/share/man \
-        -Ddocs=false \
-        -Dintrospection=disabled \
-        . output
-
-    ninja -C output
-    ninja -C output install
-}
-
-kiss l dbus >/dev/null 2>&1 || rm -rf "$1/usr/bin/gdbus"
+rm -rf "$1/usr/bin/gdbus"
diff --git a/extra/glib/checksums b/extra/glib/checksums
index 6aa5821a..87396a48 100644
--- a/extra/glib/checksums
+++ b/extra/glib/checksums
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-79f31365a99cb1cc9db028625635d1438890702acde9e2802eae0acebcf7b5b1
-0d7c67602c4161ea7070fab6c5823afd9bd7f7bc955f652a50d3753b08494e73
+e7e1a3c20c026109c45c9ec4a31d8dcebc22e86c69486993e565817d64be3138
diff --git a/extra/glib/sources b/extra/glib/sources
index cf5a9ca2..5c66acab 100644
--- a/extra/glib/sources
+++ b/extra/glib/sources
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.66/glib-2.66.3.tar.xz
-https://download.gnome.org/sources/json-glib/1.6/json-glib-1.6.0.tar.xz json-glib
+https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.68/glib-2.68.3.tar.xz
diff --git a/extra/glib/version b/extra/glib/version
index 4219642d..51f3a414 100644
--- a/extra/glib/version
+++ b/extra/glib/version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.66.3 1
+2.68.3 1