diff --git a/json-c-0.18-port-to-newer-cmake.patch b/json-c-0.18-port-to-newer-cmake.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b232760847400162eb390ed6d150cc5be871640
--- /dev/null
+++ b/json-c-0.18-port-to-newer-cmake.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+--- json-c-json-c-0.18-20240915/apps/CMakeLists.txt.orig	2025-03-04 15:12:32.149447324 +0800
++++ json-c-json-c-0.18-20240915/apps/CMakeLists.txt	2025-03-04 15:13:08.296962740 +0800
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ 
+-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)  # see ../CMakeLists.txt for why 2.8
++cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8...${CMAKE_VERSION})  # see ../CMakeLists.txt for why 2.8
+ 
+ if(POLICY CMP0075)
+     cmake_policy(SET CMP0075 NEW)
diff --git a/json-c.spec b/json-c.spec
index 15c37dbd43e26370bcdf582eb2e316d0b8732e73..1076e4aa067c07ed4d0b60de9a4b7344314accbd 100644
--- a/json-c.spec
+++ b/json-c.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Name:           json-c
 Version:        0.18
-Release:        3
+Release:        4
 Summary:        JSON implementation in C
 
 License:        MIT
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ URL:            https://github.com/%{name}/%{name}
 Source0:        %{url}/archive/%{name}-%{version}-%{reldate}.tar.gz
 
 BuildRequires:  cmake gcc ninja-build
-
+Patch0001:      json-c-0.18-port-to-newer-cmake.patch
 Patch6001:      backport-Fix-issue-875-cast-to-unsigned-char-so-bytes-above-0.patch
 
 %description
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ end
 %doc %{_pkgdocdir}
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 04 2025 Funda Wang <fundawang@yeah.net> - 0.18-4
+- try build with cmake 4.0
+
 * Wed Dec 04 2024 yueyuankun <yueyuankun@kylinos.cn> - 0.18-3
 - Fix causing the strict-mode control characters check to incorrectly trigger