diff --git a/projects/freedesktop.org/poppler-qt5/package.yml b/projects/freedesktop.org/poppler-qt5/package.yml
index f845edd43a..66fbb65a3c 100644
--- a/projects/freedesktop.org/poppler-qt5/package.yml
+++ b/projects/freedesktop.org/poppler-qt5/package.yml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ build:
     gnome.org/gobject-introspection: "*"
     linux:
       gnu.org/binutils: ^2
-      llvm.org: ~21.1 # as of 25.09.1
+      llvm.org: ~22.1 # as of 26.04.0
   script:
     # FIXME:
     # llvm.org from a dep is infecting our build env for linux, where we _need_ gcc;