diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6aa52806..e16a3213 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ which use the `basement` layer. They act as smoke tests for this project.
 First you need to add the `basement` layer to your project. To do so, add a
 `layers` entry to `config.yaml`:
 
-    bobMinimumVersion: "1.0"
+    bobMinimumVersion: "1.2"
     layers:
         - name: basement
           scm: git
diff --git a/classes/make.yaml b/classes/make.yaml
index 010e5b43..a6802c5f 100644
--- a/classes/make.yaml
+++ b/classes/make.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-jobServer: True
+jobServer: "fifo-or-pipe"
 buildToolsWeak: [make]
 buildVarsWeak: [MAKE_JOBS]
 buildSetup: |
diff --git a/classes/ninja.yaml b/classes/ninja.yaml
index 7e0ea877..b014b753 100644
--- a/classes/ninja.yaml
+++ b/classes/ninja.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-jobServer: True
+# Ninja can only work with named pipes!
+jobServer: "fifo"
 buildToolsWeak: [ninja]
 buildVarsWeak: [MAKE_JOBS]
 buildSetup: |
diff --git a/classes/strip.yaml b/classes/strip.yaml
index 524ae15a..d24500d4 100644
--- a/classes/strip.yaml
+++ b/classes/strip.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-jobServer: True
 packageToolsWeak:
     - name: pxargs
       if: !expr |
diff --git a/config.yaml b/config.yaml
index ca8734ee..65b0f37e 100644
--- a/config.yaml
+++ b/config.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-bobMinimumVersion: "1.1.0rc1"
+bobMinimumVersion: "1.2"
 
 plugins:
     - multiarch
diff --git a/doc/usage.rst b/doc/usage.rst
index 7e49ca52..11f1af95 100644
--- a/doc/usage.rst
+++ b/doc/usage.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ First, you need to add the basement layer to your project. To do so, add a
 :external:ref:`configuration-config-layers` entry to your
 :external:ref:`config.yaml <configuration-config>`::
 
-    bobMinimumVersion: "1.0"
+    bobMinimumVersion: "1.2"
     layers:
         - name: basement
           scm: git
diff --git a/recipes/devel/make.yaml b/recipes/devel/make.yaml
index 7315c9d4..adf54fd3 100644
--- a/recipes/devel/make.yaml
+++ b/recipes/devel/make.yaml
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 inherit: [cpackage, libtool, install, "basement::update-config"]
 
 metaEnvironment:
-    PKG_VERSION: "4.3"
+    PKG_VERSION: "4.4.1"
     PKG_LICENSE: "GPL-3.0-only"
 
 checkoutSCM:
     scm: url
     url: ${GNU_MIRROR}/make/make-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-    digestSHA256: "e05fdde47c5f7ca45cb697e973894ff4f5d79e13b750ed57d7b66d8defc78e19"
+    digestSHA256: "dd16fb1d67bfab79a72f5e8390735c49e3e8e70b4945a15ab1f81ddb78658fb3"
     stripComponents: 1
 
 # We do not build make with make. Instead call the manual build script that is
diff --git a/recipes/devel/ninja.yaml b/recipes/devel/ninja.yaml
index 37ecc291..4e3c5f3c 100644
--- a/recipes/devel/ninja.yaml
+++ b/recipes/devel/ninja.yaml
@@ -1,19 +1,15 @@
 inherit: [cpackage, install, patch]
 
 metaEnvironment:
-    PKG_VERSION: "1.11.1.g95dee.kitware.jobserver-1"
+    PKG_VERSION: "1.13.1"
     PKG_LICENSE: "Apache-2.0"
 
 checkoutSCM:
     scm: url
-    url: ${GITHUB_MIRROR}/Kitware/ninja/archive/v${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-    digestSHA256: 7ba84551f5b315b4270dc7c51adef5dff83a2154a3665a6c9744245c122dd0db
+    url: ${GITHUB_MIRROR}/ninja-build/ninja/archive/v1.13.1.tar.gz
+    digestSHA256: f0055ad0369bf2e372955ba55128d000cfcc21777057806015b45e4accbebf23
     stripComponents: 1
 
-checkoutDeterministic: True
-checkoutScript: |
-    patchApplySeries $<@ninja/*.patch@>
-
 buildVars: [AR, CC, CXX, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS]
 buildToolsWeak: [python3]
 multiPackage:
diff --git a/recipes/devel/ninja/0001-Replace-pipes.quote-with-shlex.quote-in-configure.py.patch b/recipes/devel/ninja/0001-Replace-pipes.quote-with-shlex.quote-in-configure.py.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 20836224..00000000
--- a/recipes/devel/ninja/0001-Replace-pipes.quote-with-shlex.quote-in-configure.py.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-From 9cf13cd1ecb7ae649394f4133d121a01e191560b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Byoungchan Lee <byoungchan.lee@gmx.com>
-Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 20:13:20 +0900
-Subject: [PATCH] Replace pipes.quote with shlex.quote in configure.py
-
-Python 3.12 deprecated the pipes module and it will be removed
-in Python 3.13. In configure.py, I have replaced the usage of pipes.quote
-with shlex.quote, which is the exactly same function as pipes.quote.
-
-For more details, refer to PEP 0594: https://peps.python.org/pep-0594
----
- configure.py | 4 ++--
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/configure.py b/configure.py
-index 588250a..c6973cd 100755
---- a/configure.py
-+++ b/configure.py
-@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ or use a meta-build system that supports Ninja output."""
- 
- from optparse import OptionParser
- import os
--import pipes
-+import shlex
- import string
- import subprocess
- import sys
-@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ n.variable('configure_args', ' '.join(configure_args))
- env_keys = set(['CXX', 'AR', 'CFLAGS', 'CXXFLAGS', 'LDFLAGS'])
- configure_env = dict((k, os.environ[k]) for k in os.environ if k in env_keys)
- if configure_env:
--    config_str = ' '.join([k + '=' + pipes.quote(configure_env[k])
-+    config_str = ' '.join([k + '=' + shlex.quote(configure_env[k])
-                            for k in configure_env])
-     n.variable('configure_env', config_str + '$ ')
- n.newline()
--- 
-2.48.1
-
diff --git a/tests/cross-platform/config.yaml b/tests/cross-platform/config.yaml
index 2a60e634..1bfb5561 100644
--- a/tests/cross-platform/config.yaml
+++ b/tests/cross-platform/config.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-bobMinimumVersion: "1.1.0rc1"
+bobMinimumVersion: "1.2"
 layers:
     - self
diff --git a/tests/licenses/config.yaml b/tests/licenses/config.yaml
index 6e9db733..1bfb5561 100644
--- a/tests/licenses/config.yaml
+++ b/tests/licenses/config.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-bobMinimumVersion: "1.1.0"
+bobMinimumVersion: "1.2"
 layers:
     - self
diff --git a/tests/linux/config.yaml b/tests/linux/config.yaml
index 4efad058..e15d01a4 100644
--- a/tests/linux/config.yaml
+++ b/tests/linux/config.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-bobMinimumVersion: "1.1.0rc1"
+bobMinimumVersion: "1.2"
 
 layers:
     - self