diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 0be025103..15f0eb0f4 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.8.12)
+CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 3.12)
 
 PROJECT(Columnstore)
 
diff --git a/cmake/cpackEngineDEB.cmake b/cmake/cpackEngineDEB.cmake
index ee2162b70..dc1f0254c 100644
--- a/cmake/cpackEngineDEB.cmake
+++ b/cmake/cpackEngineDEB.cmake
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 IF(DEB)
 
-CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 3.4)
+CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 3.12)
 
 SET(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX ${INSTALL_ENGINE})
 
diff --git a/storage-manager/CMakeLists.txt b/storage-manager/CMakeLists.txt
index c0570369b..de20f8923 100755
--- a/storage-manager/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/storage-manager/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.12)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12)
+
 project(storagemanager)
 
 include_directories(include ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/include ${ENGINE_UTILS_COMMON_INCLUDE} ${S3API_DIR})
@@ -59,13 +60,17 @@ configure_file("${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/storagemanager.cnf.in" "${CMAKE_CURR
 link_directories(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib)
 set(CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH $ORIGIN $ORIGIN/../lib)
 
+
+
 add_library(storagemanager SHARED ${storagemanager_SRCS})
-add_dependencies(storagemanager marias3)
+add_dependencies(storagemanager marias3 external_boost)
+
 target_compile_definitions(storagemanager PUBLIC BOOST_NO_CXX11_SCOPED_ENUMS)
 target_link_libraries(storagemanager boost_chrono boost_system boost_thread boost_filesystem boost_regex pthread ${S3API_DEPS})
 
 add_executable(StorageManager src/main.cpp)
 target_link_libraries(StorageManager storagemanager)
+set_property(TARGET StorageManager PROPERTY CXX_STANDARD 20)
 
 set(TMPDIR ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY})
 set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
@@ -90,9 +95,6 @@ add_custom_command(
         COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory
                 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/test_data
                 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/test_data
-#        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
-#                ../bin/unit_tests      # what is putting our bins in ../bin?
-#                ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
 )
 
 # The includes and lib linkages required to link against cloudio ...
diff --git a/utils/threadpool/CMakeLists.txt b/utils/threadpool/CMakeLists.txt
index 7e4f92eb7..175e2a68a 100644
--- a/utils/threadpool/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/utils/threadpool/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ include_directories( ${ENGINE_COMMON_INCLUDES} )
 
 set(threadpool_LIB_SRCS weightedthreadpool.cpp threadpool.cpp prioritythreadpool.cpp fair_threadpool.cpp)
 add_library(threadpool SHARED ${threadpool_LIB_SRCS})
-add_dependencies(threadpool loggingcpp)
+add_dependencies(threadpool loggingcpp external_boost)
 target_link_libraries(threadpool boost_chrono)
 install(TARGETS threadpool DESTINATION ${ENGINE_LIBDIR} COMPONENT columnstore-engine)