diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2f26e635f..36e86de73 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ cache:
     - _ccache/
 
 variables:
-  FEDORA_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/fedora:v20"
-  COVERITY_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/coverity:v8"
-  DEBIAN_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/debian-stable:v15"
-  MINGW_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/mingw:v10"
+  FEDORA_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/fedora:v19"
+  COVERITY_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/coverity:v7"
+  DEBIAN_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/debian-stable:v14"
+  MINGW_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/mingw:v9"
   MESON_TEST_TIMEOUT_MULTIPLIER: 4
   G_MESSAGES_DEBUG: all
   MESON_COMMON_OPTIONS: "--buildtype debug --wrap-mode=nodownload --fatal-meson-warnings"
@@ -439,9 +439,6 @@ freebsd-12-x86_64:
     LANG: C.UTF-8
   before_script:
     - bash .gitlab-ci/show-execution-environment.sh
-    - python3 -m ensurepip --user
-    - /var/tmp/gitlab_runner/.local/bin/pip3 install --user meson==0.64.0
-    - export PATH=/var/tmp/gitlab_runner/.local/bin:$PATH
   script:
     # We cannot use -Wl,--no-undefined because GLib uses 'environ' variable.
     # FreeBSD supports xattr, but its API is different from Linux xattr.
@@ -475,9 +472,6 @@ freebsd-13-x86_64:
     LANG: C.UTF-8
   before_script:
     - bash .gitlab-ci/show-execution-environment.sh
-    - python3 -m ensurepip --user
-    - /var/tmp/gitlab_runner/.local/bin/pip3 install --user meson==0.64.0
-    - export PATH=/var/tmp/gitlab_runner/.local/bin:$PATH
   script:
     - meson ${MESON_COMMON_OPTIONS} --localstatedir=/var -Db_lundef=false -Dxattr=false _build
     - ninja -C _build
@@ -509,7 +503,7 @@ macos:
     CFLAGS: '-Wno-overlength-strings'
   before_script:
     - bash .gitlab-ci/show-execution-environment.sh
-    - pip3 install --user meson==0.64.0
+    - pip3 install --user meson==0.60.1
     - pip3 install --user ninja
     - export PATH=/Users/gitlabrunner/Library/Python/3.7/bin:$PATH
   script:
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/coverity.Dockerfile b/.gitlab-ci/coverity.Dockerfile
index fb8753640..241861ec9 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci/coverity.Dockerfile
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/coverity.Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/fedora:v20
+FROM registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/fedora:v18
 
 ARG COVERITY_SCAN_PROJECT_NAME
 ARG COVERITY_SCAN_TOKEN
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/debian-stable.Dockerfile b/.gitlab-ci/debian-stable.Dockerfile
index 19b16acdf..b2559cad6 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci/debian-stable.Dockerfile
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/debian-stable.Dockerfile
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ RUN locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8 \
 
 ENV LANG=C.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 
-RUN pip3 install meson==0.64.0
+RUN pip3 install meson==0.60.3
 
 # FIXME: Once we use Debian Bookworm, we can just install the `reuse` package
 RUN pip3 install reuse==1.0.0
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/fedora.Dockerfile b/.gitlab-ci/fedora.Dockerfile
index 069e3b9fe..85f910cb9 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci/fedora.Dockerfile
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/fedora.Dockerfile
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ RUN dnf -y update \
     make \
  && dnf clean all
 
-RUN pip3 install meson==0.64.0
+RUN pip3 install meson==0.60.3
 
 COPY install-gitlab-cobertura-tools.sh .
 RUN ./install-gitlab-cobertura-tools.sh
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/mingw.Dockerfile b/.gitlab-ci/mingw.Dockerfile
index 736142b69..b109122fc 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci/mingw.Dockerfile
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/mingw.Dockerfile
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ RUN dnf -y install \
 WORKDIR /opt
 COPY cross_file_mingw64.txt /opt
 
-RUN pip3 install meson==0.64.0
+RUN pip3 install meson==0.60.3
 
 ARG HOST_USER_ID=5555
 ENV HOST_USER_ID ${HOST_USER_ID}
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/test-msvc.bat b/.gitlab-ci/test-msvc.bat
index 97b39552d..1ad2e4a57 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci/test-msvc.bat
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/test-msvc.bat
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ for %%x in (%*) do (
 set args=%args:~1%
 
 :: FIXME: make warnings fatal
-pip3 install --upgrade --user meson==0.64.0  || goto :error
+pip3 install --upgrade --user meson==0.60.3  || goto :error
 meson %args% _build || goto :error
 python .gitlab-ci/check-missing-install-tag.py _build || goto :error
 ninja -C _build || goto :error
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/test-msys2.sh b/.gitlab-ci/test-msys2.sh
index f83a8e714..8b24c243d 100755
--- a/.gitlab-ci/test-msys2.sh
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/test-msys2.sh
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ CCACHE_BASEDIR="$(pwd)"
 CCACHE_DIR="${CCACHE_BASEDIR}/_ccache"
 export CCACHE_BASEDIR CCACHE_DIR
 
-pip3 install --upgrade --user meson==0.64.0
+pip3 install --upgrade --user meson==0.60.3
 
 PATH="$(cygpath "$USERPROFILE")/.local/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
 DIR="$(pwd)"
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 6e0f679f8..422e30653 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 project('glib', 'c',
   version : '2.75.1',
   # NOTE: See the policy in docs/meson-version.md before changing the Meson dependency
-  meson_version : '>= 0.64.0',
+  meson_version : '>= 0.60.0',
   default_options : [
     'buildtype=debugoptimized',
     'warning_level=3',