diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 25f2ebcf..4055eac5 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Distributed under the MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
 #
 
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1)
 project(spdlog VERSION 1.0.0)
 
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)