diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b219d5654..66669461c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ classifiers = [
 
 dependencies = [
   'colorama; os_name == "nt"',
-  'meson>=0.60.0',
+  'meson>=0.62.0',
   'ninja',
   'pyproject-metadata>=0.5.0', # not a hard dependency, only needed for projects that use PEP 621 metadata
   'tomli>=1.0.0',