diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index daa80b573..ba3d01dac 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 project('pulseaudio', 'c',
         version : run_command(find_program('git-version-gen'), join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), '.tarball-version'), check : false).stdout().strip(),
         meson_version : '>= 0.50.0',
-        default_options : [ 'c_std=gnu11', 'cpp_std=c++11' ]
+        default_options : [ 'c_std=gnu11', 'cpp_std=c++17' ]
         )
 
 if not meson.is_subproject()