diff --git a/cmake/toolchain/heptools-dev-base.cmake b/cmake/toolchain/heptools-dev-base.cmake
index 6d78e35307878073fe1870506dbfbc82017fb396..19c7108cb8fd5350f0f250646f75a18cc30f8467 100644
--- a/cmake/toolchain/heptools-dev-base.cmake
+++ b/cmake/toolchain/heptools-dev-base.cmake
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ LCG_external_package(blas              0.3.5.openblas
 LCG_external_package(bleach            3.1.0                                    )
 LCG_external_package(brotli            1.0.7                                    )
 LCG_external_package(bzip2             1.0.6                                    )
-LCG_external_package(Boost             1.70.0                                   )
+LCG_external_package(Boost             1.72.0                                   )
 LCG_external_package(caniusepython3    7.1.0                                    )
 LCG_external_package(C50               2.07                                     )
 LCG_external_package(cachetools        3.1.1                                    )