diff --git a/misc/quantum++/pkg-descr b/misc/quantum++/pkg-descr
index 1302ff363bd1..5834e23b489d 100644
--- a/misc/quantum++/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/quantum++/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-Quantum++ is a modern C++11 general purpose quantum computing library, composed
-solely of template header files. Quantum++ is written in standard C++11 and has
+Quantum++ is a modern general purpose quantum computing library, composed
+solely of template header files. Quantum++ is written in standard C++17 and has
 very low external dependencies, using only the Eigen 3 linear algebra
 header-only template library and, if available, the OpenMP multi-processing
 library.
 
 WWW: https://github.com/softwareQinc/qpp