diff --git a/ports/simdjson/CONTROL b/ports/simdjson/CONTROL
index 8c71eeee50..df8c5deba9 100644
--- a/ports/simdjson/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/simdjson/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 Source: simdjson
-Version: 2019-03-09
+Version: 2019-08-05
 Description: A extremely fast JSON library that can parse gigabytes of JSON per second
+Homepage: https://github.com/lemire/simdjson
diff --git a/ports/simdjson/portfile.cmake b/ports/simdjson/portfile.cmake
index f6b2f347aa..a5eea7b682 100644
--- a/ports/simdjson/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/simdjson/portfile.cmake
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ endif()
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO lemire/simdjson
-    REF d2fa086198b77df44e7fa48b25200e118fa81eb0
-    SHA512 fe92b65e44502381d286b6a7c949055d185e56e7c244a5ab3086b2fe7da76ce81a966daa2d8459794ff0a911b426b1c77e1fc9ef0d616e20868621b1bb30cf67
+    REF d9a0e2b8f441c20ad46276fdb8ce24f2aebdc07b
+    SHA512 05523c59b95485b93646370ac1ef9f80a72351a5bfe76797c5bbbf249bedd81b962dad19040a7eaac80744aaec18be9bec1120da44a9a1e4328e68b3d671bdaf
     HEAD_REF master
 )
 
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DSIMDJSON_BUILD_STATIC=${SIMDJSON_BUILD_STATIC}
+    OPTIONS_DEBUG
+        -DSIMDJSON_SANITIZE=ON
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
@@ -38,4 +40,4 @@ file(REMOVE_RECURSE
 configure_file(${SOURCE_PATH}/LICENSE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT}/copyright COPYONLY)
 
 # CMake integration test
-#vcpkg_test_cmake(PACKAGE_NAME ${PORT})
+vcpkg_test_cmake(PACKAGE_NAME ${PORT})