diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9592472c3b..e42aed1123 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-02-26  Thomas Vander Stichele  <thomas at apestaart dot org>
+
+	* configure.ac:
+          bump glib required version to 2.3.0 for g_value_takes_boxed
+
  2004-02-25  Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus@gnome.org>
 
 	* common/m4/gst-docs.m4
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index bddaf7c20b..e483f00131 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ dnl ====================================
 dnl === GLib 2 ===
 dnl Minimum required version of GLib2
 dnl required for compilation without warnings
-GLIB2_REQ="2.2"
+GLIB2_REQ="2.3"
 AC_SUBST(GLIB2_REQ)
 
 dnl Check for glib2
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ AC_SUBST(GLIB_LIBS)
 AC_SUBST(GLIB_CFLAGS)
 
 if test "x$HAVE_GLIB2" = "xno"; then
-  AC_MSG_ERROR([GStreamer requires GLib 2.0 to compile.])
+  AC_MSG_ERROR([GStreamer requires GLib $GLIB2_REQ to compile.])
 fi
 
 GST_PKG_DEPS="glib-2.0, gobject-2.0, gmodule-2.0, gthread-2.0"