diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 8830855a..6ae20df4 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ dependency('gstreamer-play-1.0', version: '>= 1.20')
 dependency('gstreamer-video-1.0', version: '>= 1.20')
 dependency('gtksourceview-5', version: '>= 5.0.0')
 dependency('libwebp', version: '>= 1.0.0')
-dependency('openssl', version: '>= 1.0.1')
+dependency('openssl', version: '>= 3.0.0')
 dependency('shumate-1.0', version: '>= 1.0.0')
 dependency('sqlite3', version: '>= 3.24.0')