diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 867148a110..6b36c78d3e 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ project('systemd', 'c',
                 'localstatedir=/var',
                 'warning_level=2',
         ],
-        meson_version : '>= 0.53.2',
+        meson_version : '>= 0.56.0',
        )
 
 libsystemd_version = '0.36.0'
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ slow_tests = want_tests != 'false' and get_option('slow-tests')
 fuzz_tests = want_tests != 'false' and get_option('fuzz-tests')
 install_tests = get_option('install-tests')
 
-if add_languages('cpp', required : fuzzer_build)
+if add_languages('cpp', native : false, required : fuzzer_build)
         #  Used only for tests
         cxx = meson.get_compiler('cpp')
         cxx_cmd = ' '.join(cxx.cmd_array())
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ has_wstringop_truncation = cc.has_argument('-Wstringop-truncation')
 #####################################################################
 # compilation result tests
 
-conf.set('_GNU_SOURCE', true)
+conf.set('_GNU_SOURCE', 1)
 conf.set('__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__', true)
 conf.set10('HAVE_WSTRINGOP_TRUNCATION', has_wstringop_truncation)
 
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ foreach prog : progs
                                    '/usr/sbin/' + prog[0],
                                    '/sbin/' + prog[0],
                                    required: false)
-                path = exe.found() ? exe.path() : prog[1]
+                path = exe.found() ? exe.full_path() : prog[1]
         endif
         name = prog.length() > 2 ? prog[2] : prog[0].to_upper()
         conf.set_quoted(name, path)
@@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ else
                         r = find_program('clang', required : bpf_framework_required, version : '>= 10.0.0')
                         clang_found = r.found()
                         if clang_found
-                                clang = r.path()
+                                clang = r.full_path()
                         endif
                 else
                         clang_found = true
@@ -4454,8 +4454,8 @@ foreach test : tests
                 versiondep,
         ]
 
-        # FIXME: Use fs.stem() with meson >= 0.54.0
-        name = '@0@'.format(sources[0]).split('/')[-1]
+        # FIXME: Drop .format with meson >= 0.59.0
+        name = fs.stem('@0@'.format(sources[0]))
         if not name.endswith('.cc')
                 deps += [userspace]
         endif
@@ -4594,8 +4594,8 @@ foreach fuzzer : fuzzers
         endif
         sources += fuzz_generated_directives
 
-        # FIXME: Use fs.stem() with meson >= 0.54.0
-        name = '@0@'.format(sources[0]).split('/')[-1].split('.')[0]
+        # FIXME: Drop .format with meson >= 0.59.0
+        name = fs.stem('@0@'.format(sources[0]))
 
         exe = executable(
                 name,
diff --git a/shell-completion/bash/meson.build b/shell-completion/bash/meson.build
index 5fe7611b71..24cb785e6b 100644
--- a/shell-completion/bash/meson.build
+++ b/shell-completion/bash/meson.build
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ bashcompletiondir = get_option('bashcompletiondir')
 if bashcompletiondir == ''
         bash_completion = dependency('bash-completion', required : false)
         if bash_completion.found()
-                bashcompletiondir = bash_completion.get_pkgconfig_variable('completionsdir')
+                bashcompletiondir = bash_completion.get_variable(pkgconfig : 'completionsdir')
         else
                 bashcompletiondir = datadir / 'bash-completion/completions'
         endif
diff --git a/src/test/meson.build b/src/test/meson.build
index fe1a0fec21..b57ba23539 100644
--- a/src/test/meson.build
+++ b/src/test/meson.build
@@ -200,16 +200,12 @@ tests += [
                 'condition' : 'HAVE_ACL',
         },
         {
-                'sources' : [
-                        files('test-af-list.c'),
-                        generated_gperf_headers,
-                ],
+                'sources' : files('test-af-list.c') +
+                            generated_gperf_headers,
         },
         {
-                'sources' : [
-                        files('test-arphrd-util.c'),
-                        generated_gperf_headers,
-                ],
+                'sources' : files('test-arphrd-util.c') +
+                            generated_gperf_headers,
         },
         {
                 'sources' : files('test-ask-password-api.c'),
@@ -228,10 +224,8 @@ tests += [
                 'type' : 'manual',
         },
         {
-                'sources' : [
-                        files('test-cap-list.c'),
-                        generated_gperf_headers,
-                ],
+                'sources' : files('test-cap-list.c') +
+                            generated_gperf_headers,
                 'dependencies' : libcap,
         },
         {
@@ -268,28 +262,25 @@ tests += [
                 'dependencies' : libp11kit_cflags
         },
         {
-                'sources' : [
-                        files('test-errno-list.c'),
-                        generated_gperf_headers,
-                ],
+                'sources' : files('test-errno-list.c') +
+                            generated_gperf_headers,
         },
         {
                 'sources' : files('test-fd-util.c'),
                 'dependencies' : libseccomp,
         },
         {
-                'sources' : [files(
-                        'test-hashmap.c',
-                        'test-hashmap-plain.c'),
-                        test_hashmap_ordered_c,
-                ],
+                'sources' : files(
+                                  'test-hashmap.c',
+                                  'test-hashmap-plain.c',
+                            ) + [
+                                   test_hashmap_ordered_c,
+                            ],
                 'timeout' : 180,
         },
         {
-                'sources' : [
-                        files('test-ip-protocol-list.c'),
-                        shared_generated_gperf_headers,
-                ],
+                'sources' : files('test-ip-protocol-list.c') +
+                            shared_generated_gperf_headers,
         },
         {
                 'sources' : files('test-ipcrm.c'),