diff --git a/package/grpc/Config.in b/package/grpc/Config.in
index afe0ea8450..ef3e1c86cb 100644
--- a/package/grpc/Config.in
+++ b/package/grpc/Config.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_GRPC
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # protobuf, re2
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PROTOBUF_ARCH_SUPPORTS # protobuf
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_8 # libabseil-cpp
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_8 # libabseil-cpp, re2
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # protobuf, libabseil-cpp
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4 || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ATOMIC
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LIBABSEIL_CPP_ARCH_SUPPORTS
diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5webengine/Config.in b/package/qt5/qt5webengine/Config.in
index 542f212dfc..cfa5893f41 100644
--- a/package/qt5/qt5webengine/Config.in
+++ b/package/qt5/qt5webengine/Config.in
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5WEBENGINE_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on !BR2_BINFMT_FLAT # qt5base-icu
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # libglib2, qt5base-dbus
 
-comment "qt5webengine needs udev /dev management and a glibc toolchain w/ gcc >= 4.9, host gcc >= 4.9, threads, wchar"
+comment "qt5webengine needs udev /dev management and a glibc toolchain w/ gcc >= 8, host gcc >= 4.9, threads, wchar"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_QT5WEBENGINE_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_UDEV || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC || \
-		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 || \
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_8 || \
 		!BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 || \
 		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5WEBENGINE
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_QT5WEBENGINE_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC # execinfo.h, mallinfo
 	depends on BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # qt5base-icu
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # qt5base-icu
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_8 # re2
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libglib2, libvpx, qt5base-dbus
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libglib2
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_GL_AVAILABLE # qt5declarative, qt5base-eglfs
diff --git a/package/re2/Config.in b/package/re2/Config.in
index 64217e8aa2..0ac0041f6d 100644
--- a/package/re2/Config.in
+++ b/package/re2/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_RE2
 	bool "re2"
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 # needs C++11
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_8 # C++14
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBABSEIL_CPP
 	help
 	  RE2 is a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative
 	  to backtracking regular expression engines like
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_RE2
 
 	  https://github.com/google/re2
 
-comment "re2 needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, gcc >= 4.8"
+comment "re2 needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, gcc >= 8"
 	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || \
 		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || \
-		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_8
diff --git a/package/re2/re2.hash b/package/re2/re2.hash
index a39dece7a9..5f590aba6e 100644
--- a/package/re2/re2.hash
+++ b/package/re2/re2.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # locally calculated
-sha256  cbce8b7803e856827201a132862e41af386e7afd9cc6d9a9bc7a4fa4d8ddbdde  re2-2023-02-01.tar.gz
+sha256  4e6593ac3c71de1c0f322735bc8b0492a72f66ffccfad76e259fa21c41d27d8a  re2-2023-11-01.tar.gz
 sha256  6040cda75d90b1738292a631d89934c411ef7ffd543c4d6a1b7edfc8edf29449  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/re2/re2.mk b/package/re2/re2.mk
index 5587366b1f..b81a64f2e9 100644
--- a/package/re2/re2.mk
+++ b/package/re2/re2.mk
@@ -4,29 +4,26 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-RE2_VERSION = 2023-02-01
+RE2_VERSION = 2023-11-01
 RE2_SITE = $(call github,google,re2,$(RE2_VERSION))
 RE2_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 RE2_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
 RE2_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
-
-RE2_MAKE_OPTS = \
-	$(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
-	CXXFLAGS="$(TARGET_CXXFLAGS) -std=c++11"
+RE2_DEPENDENCIES = libabseil-cpp
 
 define RE2_BUILD_CMDS
-	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) $(RE2_MAKE_OPTS) \
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) $(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
 		-C $(@D) $(if $(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),static)
 endef
 
 define RE2_INSTALL_STAGING_CMDS
-	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) $(RE2_MAKE_OPTS) \
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) $(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
 		DESTDIR="$(STAGING_DIR)" prefix=/usr -C $(@D) \
 		$(if $(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),static-install,install)
 endef
 
 define RE2_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
-	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) $(RE2_MAKE_OPTS) \
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) $(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
 		DESTDIR="$(TARGET_DIR)" prefix=/usr -C $(@D) \
 		$(if $(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),static-install,install)
 endef