diff -Nru php-json-1.3.7/debian/changelog php-json-1.3.7/debian/changelog
--- php-json-1.3.7/debian/changelog	2015-07-08 06:48:57.000000000 -0700
+++ php-json-1.3.7/debian/changelog	2016-04-06 15:44:24.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+php-json (1.3.7-1ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium
+
+  * debian/patches/backport-f73f0a12.patch: Backport fix for upstream
+    issue #9.  Closes LP: #1287726.
+
+ -- Nishanth Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@canonical.com>  Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:44:13 -0700
+
 php-json (1.3.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream version 1.3.7
diff -Nru php-json-1.3.7/debian/control php-json-1.3.7/debian/control
--- php-json-1.3.7/debian/control	2015-07-08 06:48:57.000000000 -0700
+++ php-json-1.3.7/debian/control	2016-04-06 15:44:30.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: php-json
 Section: php
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Debian PHP PECL Maintainers <pkg-php-pecl@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian PHP PECL Maintainers <pkg-php-pecl@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>, Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
 	       php5-dev (>= 5.5.0~rc1+dfsg-1~),
diff -Nru php-json-1.3.7/debian/patches/backport-f73f0a12.patch php-json-1.3.7/debian/patches/backport-f73f0a12.patch
--- php-json-1.3.7/debian/patches/backport-f73f0a12.patch	1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ php-json-1.3.7/debian/patches/backport-f73f0a12.patch	2016-04-06 15:52:30.000000000 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+Description: Backport fix for upstream issue #9
+Author: Nishanth Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@canonical.com>
+Origin: upstream, https://github.com/remicollet/pecl-json-c/commit/f73f0a12d40f82bb4bc60bfaa9226ad712d15e38
+Bug: https://github.com/remicollet/pecl-json-c/issues/9
+Bug-Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1287726
+
+Index: gitwd/jsonc-1.3.7/json.c
+===================================================================
+--- gitwd.orig/jsonc-1.3.7/json.c
++++ gitwd/jsonc-1.3.7/json.c
+@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ static void json_encode_array(smart_str
+ /* }}} */
+ 
+ 
+-static int json_utf8_to_utf16(unsigned short *utf16, char utf8[], int len) /* {{{ */
++static int json_utf8_to_utf16(unsigned short *utf16, const char utf8[], int len) /* {{{ */
+ {
+ 	size_t pos = 0, us;
+ 	int j, status;
+@@ -829,7 +829,17 @@ static void json_object_to_zval(json_obj
+ 				break;
+ 
+ 			case json_type_string:
+-				RETVAL_STRINGL(json_object_get_string(new_obj), json_object_get_string_len(new_obj), 1);
++				{
++					const char *str = json_object_get_string(new_obj);
++					int	    len = json_object_get_string_len(new_obj);
++
++					if (!(options & PHP_JSON_PARSER_NOTSTRICT) &&
++						json_utf8_to_utf16(NULL, str, len) < 0) {
++						JSON_G(error_code) = PHP_JSON_ERROR_UTF8;
++					} else {
++						RETVAL_STRINGL(str, len, 1);
++					}
++				}
+ 				break;
+ 
+ 			case json_type_int:
+@@ -886,6 +896,10 @@ static void json_object_to_zval(json_obj
+ 				while (!json_object_iter_equal(&it, &itEnd)) {
+ 					MAKE_STD_ZVAL(tmpval);
+ 					key = json_object_iter_peek_name(&it);
++					if (!(options & PHP_JSON_PARSER_NOTSTRICT) &&
++						json_utf8_to_utf16(NULL, key, strlen(key)) < 0) {
++						JSON_G(error_code) = PHP_JSON_ERROR_UTF8;
++					}
+ 					tmpobj  = json_object_iter_peek_value(&it);
+ 					json_object_to_zval(tmpobj, tmpval, options TSRMLS_CC);
+ 
+@@ -917,6 +931,7 @@ PHP_JSON_API void php_json_decode_ex(zva
+ 		RETURN_NULL();
+ 	}
+ 
++	JSON_G(error_code) = 0;
+ 	RETVAL_NULL();
+ 
+ 	tok = json_tokener_new_ex(depth);
+@@ -934,6 +949,10 @@ PHP_JSON_API void php_json_decode_ex(zva
+ 	if (new_obj) {
+ 		json_object_to_zval(new_obj, return_value, options TSRMLS_CC);
+ 		json_object_put(new_obj);
++		if (JSON_G(error_code)) { // UTF8 error during conversion to zval
++			zval_ptr_dtor(&return_value);
++			RETVAL_NULL();
++		}
+ 	} else {
+ 		switch (json_tokener_get_error(tok)) {
+ 			case json_tokener_success:
+Index: gitwd/jsonc-1.3.7/tests/issue9.phpt
+===================================================================
+--- /dev/null
++++ gitwd/jsonc-1.3.7/tests/issue9.phpt
+@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
++--TEST--
++Issue #9 json_decode: invalid UTF-8 characters
++--SKIPIF--
++<?php if (!extension_loaded('json')) print 'skip'; ?.
++--FILE--
++<?php
++// String
++$json = "\"\xC1\xBF\"";
++var_dump(json_decode($json));
++var_dump(json_last_error());
++var_dump(json_last_error_msg());
++
++var_dump(bin2hex(json_decode($json, true, 2, JSON_PARSER_NOTSTRICT)));
++
++// Index
++$json = "{\"\xC1\xBF\":\"bar\"};
++var_dump(json_decode($json));
++$t = json_decode($json, true, 2, JSON_PARSER_NOTSTRICT);
++var_dump(is_array($t) && in_array("bar", $t));
++
++// Property
++$json = "{\"foo\":\"\xC1\xBF\"}";
++var_dump(json_decode($json));
++$t = json_decode($json, true, 2, JSON_PARSER_NOTSTRICT);
++var_dump(is_array($t) && array_key_exists("foo", $t));
++?>
++Done
++--EXPECT--
++NULL
++int(5)
++string(56) "Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded"
++string(4) "c1bf"
++NULL
++bool(true)
++NULL
++bool(true)
++Done
diff -Nru php-json-1.3.7/debian/patches/series php-json-1.3.7/debian/patches/series
--- php-json-1.3.7/debian/patches/series	2015-07-08 06:48:57.000000000 -0700
+++ php-json-1.3.7/debian/patches/series	2016-04-06 15:42:56.000000000 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+backport-f73f0a12.patch