diff --git a/poky/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
index 9e87101..292c559 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@
             bb.warn("You are running bitbake under WSLv2, this works properly but you should optimize your VHDX file eventually to avoid running out of storage space")
     return None
 
-# Require at least gcc version 5.0.
+# Require at least gcc version 6.0.
 #
 # This can be fixed on CentOS-7 with devtoolset-6+
 # https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-6/
@@ -541,8 +541,8 @@
     
     build_cc, version = oe.utils.get_host_compiler_version(sanity_data)
     if build_cc.strip() == "gcc":
-        if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("5.0"):
-            return "Your version of gcc is older than 5.0 and will break builds. Please install a newer version of gcc (you could use the project's buildtools-extended-tarball or use scripts/install-buildtools).\n"
+        if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("6.0"):
+            return "Your version of gcc is older than 6.0 and will break builds. Please install a newer version of gcc (you could use the project's buildtools-extended-tarball or use scripts/install-buildtools).\n"
     return None
 
 # Tar version 1.24 and onwards handle overwriting symlinks correctly