diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.34.0.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.36.0.bb
similarity index 75%
rename from poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.34.0.bb
rename to poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.36.0.bb
index 9853b3f..4fe3b2f 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.34.0.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.36.0.bb
@@ -11,12 +11,14 @@
 DEPENDS = "gtk+3 p11-kit glib-2.0 libgcrypt \
            ${@bb.utils.contains('GI_DATA_ENABLED', 'True', 'libxslt-native', '', d)}"
 
+GNOMEBASEBUILDCLASS = "meson"
+GTKDOC_MESON_OPTION = "gtk_doc"
 inherit gnomebase gtk-icon-cache gtk-doc features_check upstream-version-is-even vala gobject-introspection gettext mime mime-xdg
 # depends on gtk+3, but also x11 through gtk+-x11
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11"
 
-SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "4af28919fb1dd36d93603e8230283b6f"
-SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "29df50974a90987af694c0fb8926a6b366e68cacd8abd813817cfe1eb5d54524"
+SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "adc65563b6b458507b9a578a8b68fb61"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "aaf9bed017a2263c6145c89a1a84178f9f40f238426463e4ae486694ef5f6601"
 
 FILES_${PN} += " \
     ${datadir}/dbus-1 \
@@ -27,9 +29,3 @@
 ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv4 = "arm"
 ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv5 = "arm"
 ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv6 = "arm"
-
-# These files may be out of date or missing our fixes
-# libgcrypt.m4 in particular is calling into libgcrypt-config
-do_configure_prepend() {
-    rm -f ${S}/build/m4/*
-}
diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.7.8.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.7.9.bb
similarity index 68%
rename from poky/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.7.8.bb
rename to poky/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.7.9.bb
index 0306b04..29a2827 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.7.8.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.7.9.bb
@@ -7,12 +7,18 @@
 
 DEPENDS = "dbus gtk+3 glib-2.0"
 
+GNOMEBASEBUILDCLASS = "meson"
+GTKDOC_MESON_OPTION = "gtk_doc"
+GIR_MESON_ENABLE_FLAG = "enabled"
+GIR_MESON_DISABLE_FLAG = "disabled"
 inherit gnomebase gtk-doc features_check gobject-introspection
 # depends on gtk+3
 ANY_OF_DISTRO_FEATURES = "${GTK3DISTROFEATURES}"
 
-SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "babb4b07b5f21bef42a386d3d7019599"
-SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "69209e0b663776a00c7b6c0e560302a8dbf66b2551d55616304f240bba66e18c"
+SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "ccd9c53364174cc8d13e18a1988faa76"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "66c0517ed16df7af258e83208faaf5069727dfd66995c4bbc51c16954d674761"
+
+EXTRA_OEMESON = "-Dman=false"
 
 # there were times, we had two versions of libnotify (oe-core libnotify:0.6.x /
 # meta-gnome libnotify3: 0.7.x)
diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/libsecret/libsecret_0.20.1.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/libsecret/libsecret_0.20.3.bb
similarity index 63%
rename from poky/meta/recipes-gnome/libsecret/libsecret_0.20.1.bb
rename to poky/meta/recipes-gnome/libsecret/libsecret_0.20.3.bb
index 72511af..d3a0c2f 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/libsecret/libsecret_0.20.1.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/libsecret/libsecret_0.20.3.bb
@@ -7,21 +7,24 @@
 BUGTRACKER = "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsecret/issues"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=23c2a5e0106b99d75238986559bb5fc6"
 
+GNOMEBASEBUILDCLASS = "meson"
+
 inherit gnomebase gtk-doc vala gobject-introspection manpages
 
 DEPENDS += "glib-2.0 libgcrypt gettext-native"
 
-PACKAGECONFIG[manpages] = "--enable-manpages, --disable-manpages, libxslt-native xmlto-native"
+SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "47c3fdfeb111a87b509ad271e4a6f496"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "4fcb3c56f8ac4ab9c75b66901fb0104ec7f22aa9a012315a14c0d6dffa5290e4"
 
-SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "d2dd660a8d502099317bc8af9f30302e"
-SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "57f73e94ec6263a17a077fb809cf8cf424637a897a7f15b4eec42ce4aef52447"
+GTKDOC_MESON_OPTION = 'gtk_doc'
+
+# gobject-introspection is mandatory and cannot be configured
+REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "gobject-introspection-data"
+UNKNOWN_CONFIGURE_WHITELIST_append = " introspection"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG[manpages] = "-Dmanpage=true,-Dmanpage=false,libxslt-native xmlto-native"
 
 # http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/20228/
 ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv4 = "arm"
 ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv5 = "arm"
 ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv6 = "arm"
-
-# vapigen.m4 bundled with the tarball does not yet have our cross-compilation fixes
-do_configure_prepend() {
-    rm -f ${S}/build/m4/vapigen.m4
-}