diff --git a/thirdparty/GTest/CMakeLists.txt b/thirdparty/GTest/CMakeLists.txt
index dc8e1613406951ebc766dd5a2d00abb4e6ac4b21..f70fdfee325286eb362a2443cbc116ddc88563a5 100644
--- a/thirdparty/GTest/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/thirdparty/GTest/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 set(BUILD_GTEST ON)
 set(BUILD_GMOCK OFF)
+set(gtest_disable_pthreads ON)
 
 add_subdirectory(googletest)
diff --git a/thirdparty/GTest/update.sh b/thirdparty/GTest/update.sh
index 7cd97a8c17e1db1d0f4b91c0cd40154db50a997b..96d609c7ccbb86a6388be816c928c3c378f0ff7a 100755
--- a/thirdparty/GTest/update.sh
+++ b/thirdparty/GTest/update.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ readonly name="GoogleTest"
 readonly ownership="Google Test Upstream <robot@adios2>"
 readonly subtree="thirdparty/GTest/googletest"
 readonly repo="https://github.com/google/googletest.git"
-readonly tag="release-1.8.0"
+readonly tag="master"
 readonly shortlog="true"
 readonly paths="
 "