diff --git a/package/octave/Config.in b/package/octave/Config.in
index 73e27f65e8..a969147adf 100644
--- a/package/octave/Config.in
+++ b/package/octave/Config.in
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_OCTAVE
 	bool "octave"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_OPENBLAS_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 # C++11
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 # C++17
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_FORTRAN
 	# Some Bootlin x86_64 toolchains (like version
 	# bleeding-edge-2021.11-1) has a file
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_OCTAVE
 
 	  https://www.octave.org/
 
-comment "octave needs a toolchain w/ C++ and fortran, gcc >= 4.8"
+comment "octave needs a toolchain w/ C++ and fortran, gcc >= 7"
 	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || \
-		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 || \
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 || \
 		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_FORTRAN
diff --git a/package/octave/octave.hash b/package/octave/octave.hash
index e0cf6f626c..e45fe12ceb 100644
--- a/package/octave/octave.hash
+++ b/package/octave/octave.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally computed after checking signature
-# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-9.4.0.tar.lz.sig
+# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-10.1.0.tar.lz.sig
 # using key DBD9C84E39FE1AAE99F04446B05F05B75D36644B
-sha256  693fceb5b69211034d464b61be871c803ff74a3af4de72829341c365a53d6da1  octave-9.4.0.tar.lz
+sha256  aa1583316916ab5d08e71bcfa63eb865ecaa2561e842f769748d9b106b4cb409  octave-10.1.0.tar.lz
 sha256  3972dc9744f6499f0f9b2dbf76696f2ae7ad8af9b23dde66d6af86c9dfb36986  COPYING
diff --git a/package/octave/octave.mk b/package/octave/octave.mk
index 5ea3f80253..4410da38b1 100644
--- a/package/octave/octave.mk
+++ b/package/octave/octave.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-OCTAVE_VERSION = 9.4.0
+OCTAVE_VERSION = 10.1.0
 OCTAVE_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/octave
 OCTAVE_SOURCE = octave-$(OCTAVE_VERSION).tar.lz
 OCTAVE_LICENSE = GPL-3.0+