diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1-r255.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1-r256.ebuild
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1-r255.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1-r256.ebuild
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild
index 7a7e9f7ff4..aadc2e4cc7 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	app-arch/tar
 	app-arch/unzip
 	app-arch/zip
+	app-misc/jq
 	app-shells/bash
 	coreos-base/update_engine
 	coreos-base/coreos-init
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
index c420f27c1d..a06f609dac 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
@@ -117,3 +117,5 @@ dev-util/checkbashisms
 # fix for https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/324
 =net-misc/curl-7.41
 
+# link jq binary dynamically
+=app-misc/jq-1.4-r1