diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6fc56c82..dd080cb0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   This does not affect you unless you are producing your own formatting tags
   (for example in a script) and you are using one of these invalid tags.
 
+### Build
+- Bump the minimum cmake version to 3.5
+
 ### Added
 - Warn states for the cpu, memory, fs, and battery modules.
   ([`#570`](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/issues/570),
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 7bb080f4..8d1395ec 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Build configuration
 #
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1.0 FATAL_ERROR)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5.0 FATAL_ERROR)
 
 # Enable ccache by default and as early as possible because project() performs
 # checks on the compiler
diff --git a/cmake/modules/FindXcb.cmake b/cmake/modules/FindXcb.cmake
index 8ebf1aef..efc7bb90 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/FindXcb.cmake
+++ b/cmake/modules/FindXcb.cmake
@@ -32,12 +32,8 @@ endforeach()
 set(XCB_XRM_header "xcb/xcb_xrm.h")
 set(XCB_CURSOR_header "xcb/xcb_cursor.h")
 
-cmake_policy(PUSH)
-cmake_policy(SET CMP0057 NEW)
-
 foreach(_comp ${Xcb_FIND_COMPONENTS})
   if (NOT ${_comp} IN_LIST XCB_known_components)
-    cmake_policy(POP)
     message(FATAL_ERROR "Unknow component \"${_comp}\" of XCB")
   endif()
 
@@ -58,9 +54,6 @@ foreach(_comp ${Xcb_FIND_COMPONENTS})
   if(Xcb_${_comp}_FOUND AND NOT TARGET Xcb::${_comp})
     create_imported_target("Xcb::${_comp}" "${Xcb_${_comp}_INCLUDE_DIRS}" "${Xcb_${_comp}_LIBRARIES}")
   elseif(NOT Xcb_${_comp}_FOUND AND Xcb_FIND_REQUIRED)
-    cmake_policy(POP)
     message(FATAL_ERROR "Xcb: Required component \"${_comp}\" is not found")
   endif()
 endforeach()
-
-cmake_policy(POP)
diff --git a/doc/CMakeLists.txt b/doc/CMakeLists.txt
index fb8ad29b..9806c554 100644
--- a/doc/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/doc/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1.0 FATAL_ERROR)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5.0 FATAL_ERROR)
 
 # Only used if documentation is built on its own
 project(polybar-doc NONE)
diff --git a/lib/xpp b/lib/xpp
index 044e69d0..4d67025c 160000
--- a/lib/xpp
+++ b/lib/xpp
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 044e69d05db7f89339bda1ccd1efe0263b01c8f6
+Subproject commit 4d67025cdbcc7f3c65d1a620c97a8443e0a08129
diff --git a/tests/CMakeLists.txt.in b/tests/CMakeLists.txt.in
index 2b04f916..64866db7 100644
--- a/tests/CMakeLists.txt.in
+++ b/tests/CMakeLists.txt.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1.0)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5.0 FATAL_ERROR)
 
 project(googletest-download NONE)