diff --git a/BUILDING.txt b/BUILDING.txt
index 6b77c47b880a1..ba69e935cb996 100644
--- a/BUILDING.txt
+++ b/BUILDING.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Requirements:
 * Unix System
 * JDK 1.8
 * Maven 3.3 or later
-* Boost 1.72 (if compiling native code)
+* Boost 1.86.0 (if compiling native code)
 * Protocol Buffers 3.21.12 (if compiling native code)
 * CMake 3.19 or newer (if compiling native code)
 * Zlib devel (if compiling native code)
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ Requirements:
 * Windows 10
 * JDK 1.8
 * Maven 3.0 or later (maven.apache.org)
-* Boost 1.72 (boost.org)
+* Boost 1.86.0 (boost.org)
 * Protocol Buffers 3.21.12 (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/tags)
 * CMake 3.19 or newer (cmake.org)
 * Visual Studio 2019 (visualstudio.com)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-native-client/src/main/native/libhdfspp/tools/CMakeLists.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-native-client/src/main/native/libhdfspp/tools/CMakeLists.txt
index 52caf01915653..f41ae119a2382 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-native-client/src/main/native/libhdfspp/tools/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-native-client/src/main/native/libhdfspp/tools/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-find_package(Boost 1.72 COMPONENTS program_options REQUIRED)
+find_package(Boost 1.86 COMPONENTS program_options REQUIRED)
 
 # Default LIBHDFSPP_DIR to the default install location.  You can override
 #    it by add -DLIBHDFSPP_DIR=... to your cmake invocation