diff --git a/src/minimal_overlay/bundles/jq/.config b/src/minimal_overlay/bundles/jq/.config
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..454fc855
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/minimal_overlay/bundles/jq/.config
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Some of the functionality depends on third party
+# libraries, e.g. 'ncurses' and 'termcap'. Also note
+# that the build process requires root permissions.
+#
+# You can find the latest util_linux archives here:
+#
+#   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
+#
+JQ_SOURCE_URL=https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/download/jq-$JQ_VERSION/jq-$JQ_VERSION.tar.gz
diff --git a/src/minimal_overlay/bundles/jq/01_get.sh b/src/minimal_overlay/bundles/jq/01_get.sh
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index 00000000..b4a7aec8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/minimal_overlay/bundles/jq/01_get.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+. ../../common.sh
+. ../../../settings
+
+# Read the common configuration properties.
+DOWNLOAD_URL=`read_property JQ_SOURCE_URL`
+USE_LOCAL_SOURCE=`read_property USE_LOCAL_SOURCE`
+
+# Grab everything after the last '/' character.
+ARCHIVE_FILE=${DOWNLOAD_URL##*/}
+
+if [ "$USE_LOCAL_SOURCE" = "true" -a ! -f $MAIN_SRC_DIR/source/overlay/$ARCHIVE_FILE  ] ; then
+  echo "Source bundle $MAIN_SRC_DIR/source/overlay/$ARCHIVE_FILE is missing and will be downloaded."
+  USE_LOCAL_SOURCE="false"
+fi
+
+cd $MAIN_SRC_DIR/source/overlay
+
+if [ ! "$USE_LOCAL_SOURCE" = "true" ] ; then
+  # Downloading util-linux source bundle file. The '-c' option allows the download to resume.
+  echo "Downloading jq source bundle from $DOWNLOAD_URL"
+  wget -c $DOWNLOAD_URL
+else
+  echo "Using local jq source bundle $MAIN_SRC_DIR/source/overlay/$ARCHIVE_FILE"
+fi
+
+# Delete folder with previously extracted jq.
+echo "Removing util-linux work area. This may take a while."
+rm -rf $WORK_DIR/overlay/$BUNDLE_NAME
+mkdir $WORK_DIR/overlay/$BUNDLE_NAME
+
+# Extract util-linux to folder 'work/overlay/util_linux'.
+# Full path will be something like 'work/overlay/util_linux/util-linux-2.31'.
+tar -xvf $ARCHIVE_FILE -C $WORK_DIR/overlay/$BUNDLE_NAME
+
+cd $SRC_DIR
diff --git a/src/minimal_overlay/bundles/jq/02_build.sh b/src/minimal_overlay/bundles/jq/02_build.sh
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index 00000000..8a98a887
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+++ b/src/minimal_overlay/bundles/jq/02_build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+. ../../common.sh
+. ../../../settings
+
+cd $WORK_DIR/overlay/$BUNDLE_NAME
+
+# Change to the util-linux source directory which ls finds, e.g. 'util-linux-2.34'.
+cd $(ls -d jq-$JQ_VERSION)
+
+if [ -f Makefile ] ; then
+  echo "Preparing '$BUNDLE_NAME' work area. This may take a while."
+  make -j $NUM_JOBS clean
+else
+  echo "The clean phase for '$BUNDLE_NAME' has been skipped."
+fi
+
+rm -rf $DEST_DIR
+mkdir -p $DEST_DIR/bin
+
+echo "Configuring '$BUNDLE_NAME'."
+
+CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" ./configure \
+   --with-oniguruma=builtin
+
+echo "Building '$BUNDLE_NAME'."
+make -j $NUM_JOBS
+
+echo "Installing '$BUNDLE_NAME'."
+make check
+make -j $NUM_JOBS install
+
+cp -r jq $DEST_DIR/bin/jq
+
+echo "Reducing '$BUNDLE_NAME' size."
+reduce_size $DEST_DIR
+
+install_to_overlay
+
+echo "Bundle '$BUNDLE_NAME' has been installed."
+
+cd $SRC_DIR
+
diff --git a/src/minimal_overlay/bundles/jq/bundle.sh b/src/minimal_overlay/bundles/jq/bundle.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..e132bc25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/minimal_overlay/bundles/jq/bundle.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+. ../../common.sh
+
+./01_get.sh
+./02_build.sh
+
+cd $SRC_DIR
diff --git a/src/settings b/src/settings
index 7541642c..7886cec2 100644
--- a/src/settings
+++ b/src/settings
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 KERNEL_VERSION=6.7.5
 GLIBC_VERSION=2.39
 BUSYBOX_VERSION=1.36.1
-ADD_BUNDLES=dhcp,util_linux,passwd
+ADD_BUNDLES=dhcp,util_linux,passwd,jq
 UTIL_LINUX_VERSION=2.39.3
 NCURSES_VERSION=6.3
 PKG_CONFIG_VERSION=0.29.2
+JQ_VERSION=1.7.1