diff --git a/.checkpackageignore b/.checkpackageignore
index 1daee0b26c..093422b83b 100644
--- a/.checkpackageignore
+++ b/.checkpackageignore
@@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ package/owfs/S55owserver Shellcheck Variables
 package/owfs/S60owfs Shellcheck Variables
 package/pigpio/S50pigpio Shellcheck Variables
 package/pkgconf/pkg-config.in Shellcheck
-package/poco/0001-Fix-optional-JSON-support-for-MySQL-3753.patch Sob
 package/postgresql/S50postgresql Variables
 package/procps-ng/S02sysctl Variables
 package/proftpd/S50proftpd Indent Shellcheck Variables
diff --git a/package/poco/0001-Fix-optional-JSON-support-for-MySQL-3753.patch b/package/poco/0001-Fix-optional-JSON-support-for-MySQL-3753.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ba2f073a59..0000000000
--- a/package/poco/0001-Fix-optional-JSON-support-for-MySQL-3753.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-From 3884c734c261231c34f59e56cde7ae02945b4dae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Hernan Martinez <hernan.c.martinez@gmail.com>
-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 23:07:25 -0500
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix optional JSON support for MySQL (#3753)
-
-* Fix optional JSON support for MySQL
-
-* Fix optional JSON support for MySQLTest
----
- Data/MySQL/src/ResultMetadata.cpp      | 2 ++
- Data/MySQL/testsuite/src/MySQLTest.cpp | 2 ++
- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/Data/MySQL/src/ResultMetadata.cpp b/Data/MySQL/src/ResultMetadata.cpp
-index 61b49dd54..adb5dae84 100644
---- a/Data/MySQL/src/ResultMetadata.cpp
-+++ b/Data/MySQL/src/ResultMetadata.cpp
-@@ -133,8 +133,10 @@ namespace
- 		case MYSQL_TYPE_LONG_BLOB:
- 		case MYSQL_TYPE_BLOB:
- 			return Poco::Data::MetaColumn::FDT_BLOB;
-+#ifdef POCO_MYSQL_JSON
- 		case MYSQL_TYPE_JSON:
- 			return Poco::Data::MetaColumn::FDT_JSON;
-+#endif
- 		default:
- 			return Poco::Data::MetaColumn::FDT_UNKNOWN;
- 		}
-diff --git a/Data/MySQL/testsuite/src/MySQLTest.cpp b/Data/MySQL/testsuite/src/MySQLTest.cpp
-index 80a3683b1..2a286d35e 100644
---- a/Data/MySQL/testsuite/src/MySQLTest.cpp
-+++ b/Data/MySQL/testsuite/src/MySQLTest.cpp
-@@ -976,7 +976,9 @@ CppUnit::Test* MySQLTest::suite()
- 	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, MySQLTest, testBLOBStmt);
- 	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, MySQLTest, testLongBLOB);
- 	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, MySQLTest, testLongTEXT);
-+#ifdef POCO_MYSQL_JSON
- 	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, MySQLTest, testJSON);
-+#endif
- 	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, MySQLTest, testUnsignedInts);
- 	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, MySQLTest, testFloat);
- 	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, MySQLTest, testDouble);
--- 
-2.37.2
-
diff --git a/package/poco/poco.hash b/package/poco/poco.hash
index eea3e2494a..9a7981171a 100644
--- a/package/poco/poco.hash
+++ b/package/poco/poco.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  30442ccb097a0074133f699213a59d6f8c77db5b2c98a7c1ad9c5eeb3a2b06f3  poco-1.12.2.tar.gz
+sha256  71ef96c35fced367d6da74da294510ad2c912563f12cd716ab02b6ed10a733ef  poco-1.12.4.tar.gz
 sha256  c4b1e1e5f36d8331737231fefcc30f5714326aec7c387ad59a8115eb0ba7d6b5  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/poco/poco.mk b/package/poco/poco.mk
index d078faa8e5..2d0233a8ce 100644
--- a/package/poco/poco.mk
+++ b/package/poco/poco.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-POCO_VERSION = 1.12.2
+POCO_VERSION = 1.12.4
 POCO_SITE = $(call github,pocoproject,poco,poco-$(POCO_VERSION)-release)
 POCO_LICENSE = BSL-1.0
 POCO_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE