diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ae29ca2fc4..ba7a9e403f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
-# 3.1 is OK for most parts. However:
-# 3.3 is needed in src/libFLAC
-# 3.5 is needed in src/libFLAC/ia32
-# 3.9 is needed in 'doc' because of doxygen_add_docs()
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12...3.31)
 
 if(NOT (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE OR CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES OR DEFINED ENV{CFLAGS} OR DEFINED ENV{CXXFLAGS}))
     set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release CACHE STRING "Choose the type of build, options are: None Debug Release RelWithDebInfo")
diff --git a/doc/CMakeLists.txt b/doc/CMakeLists.txt
index 5808cf1da4..bb85c8d650 100644
--- a/doc/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/doc/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.9)
-
 option(BUILD_DOXYGEN "Enable API documentation building via Doxygen if not already present" ON)
 
 if(NOT EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/api")
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 262feeaddf..a61b38de0e 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.11)
-
 option(ENABLE_64_BIT_WORDS "Set FLAC__BYTES_PER_WORD to 8, for 64-bit machines. For 32-bit machines, turning this off might give a tiny speed improvement" ON)
 option(BUILD_UTILS "Build utils" OFF)
 
diff --git a/src/share/utf8/CMakeLists.txt b/src/share/utf8/CMakeLists.txt
index 389b09e26c..3ad0c71888 100644
--- a/src/share/utf8/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/share/utf8/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12)
-
 add_library(utf8 STATIC
     charset.c
     iconvert.c