diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ff46b0d..be89c11 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 dist-bzip2])
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable])
 
-VALA_VERSION=0.20
+VALA_VERSION=0.22
 PACKAGE_SUFFIX=-$VALA_VERSION
 
 dnl http://people.gnome.org/~walters/docs/build-api.txt