diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 3c9afc5c6..74babaf7c 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ A C++ toolchain: [required]
 	Either {g++, clang}
 
 Meson Build system: [required]
-        meson (>= 0.47) ninja-build pkg-config
+        meson (>= 0.51) ninja-build pkg-config
 
         If your distribution doesn't provide a recent enough version of meson,
         you can install or upgrade it using pip3.
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 6d7501413..020ea93cc 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
 
 project('libcamera', 'c', 'cpp',
-    meson_version : '>= 0.47',
+    meson_version : '>= 0.51',
     version : '0.0.0',
     default_options : [
         'werror=true',