diff --git a/include/qapi/qmp/qnum.h b/include/qapi/qmp/qnum.h
index 45bf02a036..bbae0a5ec8 100644
--- a/include/qapi/qmp/qnum.h
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qnum.h
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ typedef enum {
 
 /*
  * QNum encapsulates how our dialect of JSON fills in the blanks left
- * by the JSON specification (RFC 7159) regarding numbers.
+ * by the JSON specification (RFC 8259) regarding numbers.
  *
  * Conceptually, we treat number as an abstract type with three
  * concrete subtypes: floating-point, signed integer, unsigned
diff --git a/qapi/introspect.json b/qapi/introspect.json
index 137b39b992..3d22166b2b 100644
--- a/qapi/introspect.json
+++ b/qapi/introspect.json
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
 ##
 # @JSONType:
 #
-# The four primitive and two structured types according to RFC 7159
+# The four primitive and two structured types according to RFC 8259
 # section 1, plus 'int' (split off 'number'), plus the obvious top
 # type 'value'.
 #
diff --git a/qobject/json-parser.c b/qobject/json-parser.c
index 3318b8dad0..5a840dfd86 100644
--- a/qobject/json-parser.c
+++ b/qobject/json-parser.c
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ static QObject *parse_literal(JSONParserContext *ctxt)
     }
     case JSON_FLOAT:
         /* FIXME dependent on locale; a pervasive issue in QEMU */
-        /* FIXME our lexer matches RFC 7159 in forbidding Inf or NaN,
+        /* FIXME our lexer matches RFC 8259 in forbidding Inf or NaN,
          * but those might be useful extensions beyond JSON */
         return QOBJECT(qnum_from_double(strtod(token->str, NULL)));
     default: