diff --git a/Gemfile.template b/Gemfile.template
index c3ff3d8555..bcac1bc21e 100644
--- a/Gemfile.template
+++ b/Gemfile.template
@@ -43,5 +43,4 @@ gem "date", "= 3.3.3"
 gem "thwait"
 gem "bigdecimal", "~> 3.1"
 gem "cgi", "~> 0.3.7" # Pins until a new jruby version with updated cgi is released (https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues/8919)
-gem "json", "~> 2.19.2" # Pin json to the maintained 2.19.x line
 gem "jar-dependencies", "= 0.5.4" # Pin to avoid conflict with default