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
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ba2f073a59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/poco/0001-Fix-optional-JSON-support-for-MySQL-3753.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+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/Config.in b/package/poco/Config.in
index 95f9a46e6e..cb447960f1 100644
--- a/package/poco/Config.in
+++ b/package/poco/Config.in
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_POCO
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # dlopen()
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_POCO_ARCH_SUPPORTS
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE
 	help
 	  The C++ Portable Components Libraries
 
diff --git a/package/poco/poco.hash b/package/poco/poco.hash
index 4bf20f3f6b..eea3e2494a 100644
--- a/package/poco/poco.hash
+++ b/package/poco/poco.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  9774651a02e4cfa79fc43b7db617e45d353ede00b7be8afd0e74e6afb23d3793  poco-1.11.2.tar.gz
+sha256  30442ccb097a0074133f699213a59d6f8c77db5b2c98a7c1ad9c5eeb3a2b06f3  poco-1.12.2.tar.gz
 sha256  c4b1e1e5f36d8331737231fefcc30f5714326aec7c387ad59a8115eb0ba7d6b5  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/poco/poco.mk b/package/poco/poco.mk
index c06e55210e..3bcc42c455 100644
--- a/package/poco/poco.mk
+++ b/package/poco/poco.mk
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-POCO_VERSION = 1.11.2
+POCO_VERSION = 1.12.2
 POCO_SITE = $(call github,pocoproject,poco,poco-$(POCO_VERSION)-release)
 POCO_LICENSE = BSL-1.0
 POCO_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
 POCO_CPE_ID_VENDOR = pocoproject
 POCO_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 
-POCO_DEPENDENCIES = pcre zlib \
+POCO_DEPENDENCIES = pcre2 zlib \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_POCO_CRYPTO),openssl) \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_POCO_DATA_MYSQL),mysql) \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_POCO_DATA_SQLITE),sqlite) \
@@ -60,11 +60,17 @@ else ifeq ($(BR2_SHARED_STATIC_LIBS),y)
 POCO_MAKE_TARGET = all_release
 endif
 
+POCO_LDFLAGS=$(TARGET_LDFLAGS)
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBATOMIC),y)
+POCO_LDFLAGS += -latomic
+endif
+
 define POCO_CONFIGURE_CMDS
 	(cd $(@D); $(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) ./configure \
 		--config=Linux \
 		--prefix=/usr \
 		--cflags=-std=c++14 \
+		--ldflags="$(POCO_LDFLAGS)" \
 		--omit="$(POCO_OMIT)" \
 		$(POCO_CONF_OPTS) \
 		--unbundled \