diff --git a/dev-libs/sord/sord-0.16.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/sord/sord-0.16.0.ebuild
index 9b71fb2e200ad..6650996aa7176 100644
--- a/dev-libs/sord/sord-0.16.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/sord/sord-0.16.0.ebuild
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~x86"
 IUSE="doc static-libs test"
 
-RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/serd-0.14.0"
+RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/serd-0.22.4"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	doc? ( app-doc/doxygen )