diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 725b81c..138507b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ The scope of what is covered by the version number excludes:
 
 ## Version history
 
+### 1.1.6-2 (19-Oct-2023)
+
+ - this is not a real release (has no tag), since it doesn't change any code. It only updates
+   the rockspec to revert [#23](https://github.com/Tieske/lua-resty-ljsonschema/pull/23).
+   See: https://github.com/openresty/lua-cjson/issues/96
+
 ### 1.1.6 (21-Sep-2023)
 
 - fix: properly check custom.array_mt
diff --git a/lua-resty-ljsonschema-scm-1.rockspec b/lua-resty-ljsonschema-scm-1.rockspec
index c854cdc..5324e7c 100644
--- a/lua-resty-ljsonschema-scm-1.rockspec
+++ b/lua-resty-ljsonschema-scm-1.rockspec
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ description = {
 dependencies = {
    "lua >= 5.1",
    "net-url",
-   "lua-cjson",
+   -- "lua-cjson", disabled, see https://github.com/openresty/lua-cjson/issues/96
 }
 
 build = {
diff --git a/rockspecs/lua-resty-ljsonschema-1.1.6-2.rockspec b/rockspecs/lua-resty-ljsonschema-1.1.6-2.rockspec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..364a643
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rockspecs/lua-resty-ljsonschema-1.1.6-2.rockspec
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+local package_name = "lua-resty-ljsonschema"
+local package_version = "1.1.6"
+local rockspec_revision = "2"
+local github_account_name = "Tieske"
+local github_repo_name = package_name
+local git_checkout = package_version == "scm" and "master" or package_version
+
+
+package = package_name
+version = package_version .. "-" .. rockspec_revision
+
+source = {
+   url = "git://github.com/"..github_account_name.."/"..github_repo_name..".git",
+   branch = git_checkout
+}
+
+description = {
+   summary = "JSON Schema data validator",
+   detailed = [[
+      This module is a data validator that implements JSON Schema draft 4.
+      Given a JSON schema, it will generate a validator function that can be used
+      to validate any kind of data (not limited to JSON).
+   ]],
+   homepage = "https://github.com/"..github_account_name.."/"..github_repo_name,
+   license = "MIT/X11"
+}
+
+dependencies = {
+   "lua >= 5.1",
+   "net-url",
+   -- "lua-cjson", disabled, see https://github.com/openresty/lua-cjson/issues/96
+}
+
+build = {
+   type = "builtin",
+   modules = {
+      ["resty.ljsonschema.init"] = "src/resty/ljsonschema/init.lua",
+      ["resty.ljsonschema.store"] = "src/resty/ljsonschema/store.lua",
+      ["resty.ljsonschema.metaschema"] = "src/resty/ljsonschema/metaschema.lua",
+   }
+}