diff --git a/PACKAGING b/PACKAGING
index 68199d11..fe0f11bc 100644
--- a/PACKAGING
+++ b/PACKAGING
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Installed:
 Following is a list of dependencies of gitg. Note that these are subject to
 change and a definite list can be obtained by inspecting configure.ac instead:
 
-- glib >= 2.38
+- glib >= 2.68
 - gtk+ >= 3.10
 - gtksourceview >= 3.10
 - gobject-introspection >= 0.10.1
diff --git a/libgitg-ext/meson.build b/libgitg-ext/meson.build
index f116ba01..f49c1dbd 100644
--- a/libgitg-ext/meson.build
+++ b/libgitg-ext/meson.build
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ if get_option('docs')
     '--pkg', 'ggit-1.0',
     '--pkg', 'gio-2.0',
     '--pkg', 'gtk+-3.0',
-    '--pkg', 'libsoup-2.4',
     '--pkg', 'gee-0.8',
   ]
 
diff --git a/libgitg/gitg-credentials-manager.vala b/libgitg/gitg-credentials-manager.vala
index 331aaaf5..686a6889 100644
--- a/libgitg/gitg-credentials-manager.vala
+++ b/libgitg/gitg-credentials-manager.vala
@@ -225,13 +225,13 @@ public class CredentialsManager
 		}
 		else
 		{
-			var uri = new Soup.URI(url);
+			var uri = GLib.Uri.parse(url, GLib.UriFlags.NONE);
 
 			if (uri != null)
 			{
 				host = uri.get_host();
 
-				if (!uri.uses_default_port())
+				if (uri.get_port() != -1)
 				{
 					host = @"$(host):$(uri.get_port())";
 				}
diff --git a/libgitg/meson.build b/libgitg/meson.build
index 493fef5d..e20e07c8 100644
--- a/libgitg/meson.build
+++ b/libgitg/meson.build
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ deps = common_deps + [
   gtksourceview_dep,
   libide_dep,
   libsecret_dep,
-  libsoup_dep,
   m_dep,
 ]
 
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index f5db5ae8..ec87a214 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ add_project_arguments('--vapidir=' + vapi_dir, language: 'vala')
 symbol_map = join_paths(source_root, 'libgitg.map')
 common_ldflags = cc.get_supported_link_arguments('-Wl,--version-script,@0@'.format(symbol_map))
 
-glib_req_version = '>= 2.38'
+glib_req_version = '>= 2.68'
 
 gee_dep = dependency('gee-0.8')
 gio_dep = dependency('gio-2.0', version: glib_req_version)
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ gtksourceview_dep = dependency('gtksourceview-4', version: '>= 4.0.3')
 libgit2_glib_dep = dependency('libgit2-glib-1.0', version: ['>= 0.27.8'])
 libpeas_dep = dependency('libpeas-1.0')
 libsecret_dep = dependency('libsecret-1')
-libsoup_dep = dependency('libsoup-2.4')
 libxml_dep = dependency('libxml-2.0', version: '>= 2.9.0')
 libdazzle_dep = dependency('libdazzle-1.0')
 json_glib_dependency = dependency('json-glib-1.0')
diff --git a/osx/Taps/gitg/gitg.rb b/osx/Taps/gitg/gitg.rb
index 4fdc92e7..0e7f687a 100644
--- a/osx/Taps/gitg/gitg.rb
+++ b/osx/Taps/gitg/gitg.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ class Gitg < Formula
   depends_on "gnome/gitg/shared-mime-info"
   depends_on "gnome/gitg/gtk+3" => "with-quartz-relocation"
   depends_on "gnome/gitg/gtksourceview3"
-  depends_on "gnome/gitg/libsoup"
   depends_on "gnome/gitg/libsecret"
   depends_on "gnome/gitg/libpeas"
   depends_on "gnome/gitg/gspell"
diff --git a/osx/Taps/gitg/libsoup.rb b/osx/Taps/gitg/libsoup.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 882cf9ed..00000000
--- a/osx/Taps/gitg/libsoup.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-class Libsoup < Formula
-  desc "HTTP client/server library for GNOME"
-  homepage "https://live.gnome.org/LibSoup"
-  url "https://download.gnome.org/sources/libsoup/2.54/libsoup-2.54.1.tar.xz"
-  sha256 "47b42c232034734d66e5f093025843a5d8cc4b2357c011085a2fd04ef02dd633"
-
-  depends_on "pkg-config" => :build
-  depends_on "intltool" => :build
-  depends_on "gnome/gitg/gtk-doc" => :build
-  depends_on "gnome/gitg/glib-networking"
-  depends_on "gnome/gitg/gnutls"
-  depends_on "sqlite"
-  depends_on "gnome/gitg/gobject-introspection" => :recommended
-  depends_on "gnome/gitg/vala"
-
-  def install
-    args = [
-      "--disable-debug",
-      "--disable-dependency-tracking",
-      "--disable-silent-rules",
-      "--prefix=#{prefix}",
-      "--without-gnome",
-      "--disable-tls-check"
-    ]
-
-    if build.with? "gobject-introspection"
-      args << "--enable-introspection"
-    else
-      args << "--disable-introspection"
-    end
-
-    system "./configure", *args
-    system "make", "install"
-  end
-
-  test do
-    (testpath/"test.c").write <<-EOS.undent
-      #include <libsoup/soup.h>
-
-      int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
-        guint version = soup_get_major_version();
-        return 0;
-      }
-    EOS
-    ENV.libxml2
-    gettext = Formula["gettext"]
-    glib = Formula["glib"]
-    flags = (ENV.cflags || "").split + (ENV.cppflags || "").split + (ENV.ldflags || "").split
-    flags += %W[
-      -I#{gettext.opt_include}
-      -I#{glib.opt_include}/glib-2.0
-      -I#{glib.opt_lib}/glib-2.0/include
-      -I#{include}/libsoup-2.4
-      -D_REENTRANT
-      -L#{gettext.opt_lib}
-      -L#{glib.opt_lib}
-      -L#{lib}
-      -lgio-2.0
-      -lglib-2.0
-      -lgobject-2.0
-      -lintl
-      -lsoup-2.4
-    ]
-    system ENV.cc, "test.c", "-o", "test", *flags
-    system "./test"
-  end
-end