diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9c3664291..672dee337 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.8)
-set(BOOST_MIN_VERSION "1.48.0")
+set(BOOST_MIN_VERSION "1.53.0")
 
 project(icinga2)
 list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake")
diff --git a/doc/21-development.md b/doc/21-development.md
index d26c8dbae..01d82653b 100644
--- a/doc/21-development.md
+++ b/doc/21-development.md
@@ -1093,8 +1093,8 @@ Icinga application using a dist tarball (including notes for distributions):
   - SUSE: libopenssl-devel (for SLES 11: libopenssl1-devel)
   - Debian/Ubuntu: libssl-dev
   - Alpine: libressl-dev
-* Boost library and header files >= 1.48.0
-  - RHEL/Fedora: boost148-devel
+* Boost library and header files >= 1.53.0
+  - RHEL/Fedora: boost153-devel
   - Debian/Ubuntu: libboost-all-dev
   - Alpine: boost-dev
 * GNU bison (bison)