diff --git a/opendht.pc.in b/opendht.pc.in
index 9491c4e14ba0599fce282035c1c5a067be029043..30dd63937fc09a3750d1b4fd8e24534645b38e67 100644
--- a/opendht.pc.in
+++ b/opendht.pc.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
 libdir=@libdir@
 includedir=@includedir@
 Name: OpenDHT
-Description: C++14 Distributed Hash Table library
+Description: C++17 Distributed Hash Table library
 Version: @VERSION@
 Libs: -L${libdir} -lopendht
 Libs.private: @http_parser_lib@ -pthread