diff --git a/network/newsbeuter/json-c.diff b/network/newsbeuter/json-c.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..49d5a5bc89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/network/newsbeuter/json-c.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Nur newsbeuter-2.5.a/src/ttrss_api.cpp newsbeuter-2.5.b/src/ttrss_api.cpp
+--- newsbeuter-2.5.a/src/ttrss_api.cpp	2012-01-06 06:41:13.000000000 -0800
++++ newsbeuter-2.5.b/src/ttrss_api.cpp	2012-12-24 20:08:35.505897356 -0800
+@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
+ 		const char * link = json_object_get_string(json_object_object_get(item_obj, "link"));
+ 		const char * content = json_object_get_string(json_object_object_get(item_obj, "content"));
+ 		time_t updated = (time_t)json_object_get_int(json_object_object_get(item_obj, "updated"));
+-		boolean unread = json_object_get_boolean(json_object_object_get(item_obj, "unread"));
++		bool unread = json_object_get_boolean(json_object_object_get(item_obj, "unread"));
+ 
+ 		rsspp::item item;
+ 
diff --git a/network/newsbeuter/newsbeuter.SlackBuild b/network/newsbeuter/newsbeuter.SlackBuild
index 423f2b3456..5fb4e8a2d2 100644
--- a/network/newsbeuter/newsbeuter.SlackBuild
+++ b/network/newsbeuter/newsbeuter.SlackBuild
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 PRGNAM=newsbeuter
 VERSION=${VERSION:-2.5}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
 case "$( uname -m )" in
@@ -50,7 +50,10 @@ find . \
   \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 \
   -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
+# patch for GCC header changes
 patch -p1 --verbose < $CWD/unistd.diff
+# patch for json-c api change
+patch -p1 --verbose < $CWD/json-c.diff
 
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 make \