diff --git a/community/dbus-cpp/APKBUILD b/community/dbus-cpp/APKBUILD
index 8bcc98161ee..e73100bd3c6 100644
--- a/community/dbus-cpp/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/dbus-cpp/APKBUILD
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Luca Weiss <luca@z3ntu.xyz>
 pkgname=dbus-cpp
 pkgver=5.0.3
-pkgrel=7
+pkgrel=8
 pkgdesc="A header-only dbus-binding leveraging C++-11"
 url="https://gitlab.com/ubports/core/lib-cpp/dbus-cpp"
 arch="all"
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ depends_dev="boost-dev properties-cpp-dev"
 makedepends="$depends_dev cmake cmake-extras dbus-dev libxml2-dev process-cpp-dev gtest-dev samurai"
 checkdepends="dbus coreutils"
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev"
-source="https://gitlab.com/ubports/core/lib-cpp/dbus-cpp/-/archive/$pkgver/dbus-cpp-$pkgver.tar.gz"
+source="https://gitlab.com/ubports/core/lib-cpp/dbus-cpp/-/archive/$pkgver/dbus-cpp-$pkgver.tar.gz
+	cxx.patch
+	"
 options="!check" # Tests are too unreliable to not fail randomly
 
 build() {
@@ -37,4 +39,5 @@ package() {
 
 sha512sums="
 03fcbfc856d58310a445ec02dc40e5b7a02a6ab7a5ee5455c8f56ff400a1820c9b62c7d7847eb8df8bad0e18704a35ce2a81c35864ca855cbc9a8e3965d21fc5  dbus-cpp-5.0.3.tar.gz
+19134a16963834deffe57168048505a0485099b93c03e76f309bb7b3055fef70df8ae4e5aada0e5c8564349949aa89d926b27513978d055fe30dbaf345744228  cxx.patch
 "
diff --git a/community/dbus-cpp/cxx.patch b/community/dbus-cpp/cxx.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..11204eacd06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/dbus-cpp/cxx.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
+index c396696..bf988c6 100644
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ include(cmake/PrePush.cmake)
+ include(GNUInstallDirs)
+ 
+ set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -Werror -Wall -Wextra -fvisibility=hidden -fPIC -pthread")
+-set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++11 -Werror -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Wextra -fPIC -pthread")
++set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++17 -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Wextra -fPIC -pthread")
+ set(CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS}")
+ 
+ # We leverage GCC's sanitize functionality