diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index f43a60ffc..1f824457b 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ gudev = dependency('gudev-1.0')
 if gudev.version().version_compare('>= 232')
   conf.set('HAVE_GUDEV_232', '1')
 endif
-libxmlb = dependency('xmlb', version : '>= 0.1.5', fallback : ['libxmlb', 'libxmlb_dep'])
+libxmlb = dependency('xmlb', version : '>= 0.1.7', fallback : ['libxmlb', 'libxmlb_dep'])
 gusb = dependency('gusb', version : '>= 0.2.9')
 sqlite = dependency('sqlite3')
 libarchive = dependency('libarchive')