diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6507770..fb648c1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ It implements the following features:
 
 `eg25-manager` requires the following development libraries:
 - libglib2.0-dev
-- libgpiod-dev
+- libgpiod-dev (>= 2.0)
 - libmm-glib-dev
 
 ## Building
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index ef65fb6..8e6c6fc 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ mgr_deps = [
     dependency('glib-2.0'),
     dependency('gio-unix-2.0'),
     dependency('gudev-1.0'),
-    dependency('libgpiod'),
+    dependency('libgpiod', version: '>= 2.0'),
     dependency('libusb-1.0'),
     dependency('libcurl'),
     mmglib_dep,