diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 36f50ca..53948d1 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: geojsonsf
 Type: Package
 Title: GeoJSON to Simple Feature Converter
-Version: 2.0.3
-Date: 2022-05-31
+Version: 2.0.4
+Date: 2023-06-24
 Authors@R: c(
     person("David", "Cooley", ,"dcooley@symbolix.com.au", role = c("aut", "cre"))
     )
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ BugReports: https://github.com/SymbolixAU/geojsonsf/issues
 Encoding: UTF-8
 LazyData: true
 Depends: R (>= 3.3.0)
-SystemRequirements: C++11
 LinkingTo: 
     geometries,
     jsonify (>= 1.1.1),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 7c6712a..35f1bdc 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+## v2.0.4
+
+* removed minimum C++ requirement
 
 ## v2.0.3
 
diff --git a/src/Makevars b/src/Makevars
index e932cb1..64adefd 100644
--- a/src/Makevars
+++ b/src/Makevars
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-CXX_STD = CXX11
-
 PKG_CXXFLAGS = -I../inst/include/
 PKG_CPPFLAGS=-DSTRICT_R_HEADERS
diff --git a/src/Makevars.win b/src/Makevars.win
index e932cb1..64adefd 100644
--- a/src/Makevars.win
+++ b/src/Makevars.win
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-CXX_STD = CXX11
-
 PKG_CXXFLAGS = -I../inst/include/
 PKG_CPPFLAGS=-DSTRICT_R_HEADERS