diff --git a/leveldb.changes b/leveldb.changes
index b31c41c..440a5f0 100644
--- a/leveldb.changes
+++ b/leveldb.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar 25 05:43:50 UTC 2024 - David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
+
+- Use C++14 to satisfy GTest's new minimum version requirement
+  [bsc#1221870]
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jan 22 09:31:24 UTC 2024 - pgajdos@suse.com
 
diff --git a/leveldb.spec b/leveldb.spec
index 3af97b9..cca091d 100644
--- a/leveldb.spec
+++ b/leveldb.spec
@@ -80,11 +80,11 @@ This package holds the development files for statically linking leveldb.
 %build
 # unfortunately a two-pass build is needed for shared and static libs
 %global _lto_cflags %{_lto_cflags} -ffat-lto-objects
-%cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
+%cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=14
 %cmake_build
 cd ..
 %define __builddir build_static
-%cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
+%cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=14
 %cmake_build
 
 %install