diff --git a/changelog/minDubVersion.dd b/changelog/minDubVersion.dd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79d91f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/minDubVersion.dd
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Dub now supports a `minDubVersion` field.
+
+This field will abort the build if the user doesn't have a recent enough version of dub
+and miss needed feature to perform the build.
+
+`minDubVersion` can be added to project's `dub.json`:
+-------
+{
+    ...
+    "minDubVersion": "1.10"
+    ...
+}
+------
+or `dub.sdl`:
+------
+minDubVersion "1.10"
+------
diff --git a/source/dub/package_.d b/source/dub/package_.d
index bac7020..089f179 100644
--- a/source/dub/package_.d
+++ b/source/dub/package_.d
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@
 		// use the given recipe as the basis
 		m_info = recipe;
 
+		checkMinDubVersion();
 		fillWithDefaults();
 	}
 
@@ -619,6 +620,35 @@
 		return ret;
 	}
 
+	private void checkMinDubVersion()
+	{
+		import dub.semver : compareVersions, expandVersion, isValidVersion;
+		import dub.version_ : dubVersion;
+		import std.exception : enforce;
+
+		if (m_info.minDubVersion.length) {
+			auto mdv = m_info.minDubVersion;
+			if (!isValidVersion(mdv)) {
+				mdv = expandVersion(mdv);
+				enforce(isValidVersion(mdv),
+					"minDubVersion "~m_info.minDubVersion~" is not SemVer compliant!");
+			}
+
+			static assert(dubVersion.length);
+			static if (dubVersion[0] == 'v') {
+				enum dv = dubVersion[1 .. $];
+			}
+			else {
+				enum dv = dubVersion;
+			}
+			static assert(isValidVersion(dv));
+
+			enforce(compareVersions(dv, mdv) >= 0,
+				"dub-"~dv~" does not comply with minDubVersion specification: "~mdv~
+				".\nPlease consider upgrading your dub installation.");
+		}
+	}
+
 	private void fillWithDefaults()
 	{
 		auto bs = &m_info.buildSettings;
diff --git a/source/dub/recipe/json.d b/source/dub/recipe/json.d
index a254e89..707facb 100644
--- a/source/dub/recipe/json.d
+++ b/source/dub/recipe/json.d
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 			case "authors": recipe.authors = deserializeJson!(string[])(value); break;
 			case "copyright": recipe.copyright = value.get!string; break;
 			case "license": recipe.license = value.get!string; break;
+			case "minDubVersion": recipe.minDubVersion = value.get!string; break;
 			case "configurations": break; // handled below, after the global settings have been parsed
 			case "buildTypes":
 				foreach (string name, settings; value) {
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@
 	if (!recipe.authors.empty) ret["authors"] = serializeToJson(recipe.authors);
 	if (!recipe.copyright.empty) ret["copyright"] = recipe.copyright;
 	if (!recipe.license.empty) ret["license"] = recipe.license;
+	if (!recipe.minDubVersion.empty) ret["minDubVersion"] = recipe.minDubVersion;
 	if (!recipe.subPackages.empty) {
 		Json[] jsonSubPackages = new Json[recipe.subPackages.length];
 		foreach (i, subPackage; recipe.subPackages) {
diff --git a/source/dub/recipe/packagerecipe.d b/source/dub/recipe/packagerecipe.d
index 7775bdb..b323bc5 100644
--- a/source/dub/recipe/packagerecipe.d
+++ b/source/dub/recipe/packagerecipe.d
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
 	string[] authors;
 	string copyright;
 	string license;
+	string minDubVersion;
 	string[] ddoxFilterArgs;
 	string ddoxTool;
 	BuildSettingsTemplate buildSettings;
diff --git a/source/dub/recipe/sdl.d b/source/dub/recipe/sdl.d
index 33dc59d..dfabb45 100644
--- a/source/dub/recipe/sdl.d
+++ b/source/dub/recipe/sdl.d
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 			case "authors": recipe.authors ~= n.stringArrayTagValue; break;
 			case "copyright": recipe.copyright = n.stringTagValue; break;
 			case "license": recipe.license = n.stringTagValue; break;
+			case "minDubVersion": recipe.minDubVersion = n.stringTagValue; break;
 			case "subPackage": subpacks ~= n; break;
 			case "configuration": configs ~= n; break;
 			case "buildType":
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@
 	if (recipe.authors.length) ret.add(new Tag(null, "authors", recipe.authors.map!(a => Value(a)).array));
 	if (recipe.copyright.length) add("copyright", recipe.copyright);
 	if (recipe.license.length) add("license", recipe.license);
+	if (recipe.minDubVersion.length) add("minDubVersion", recipe.minDubVersion);
 	foreach (name, settings; recipe.buildTypes) {
 		auto t = new Tag(null, "buildType", [Value(name)]);
 		t.add(settings.toSDL());
diff --git a/test/issue1531-min-dub-version.sh b/test/issue1531-min-dub-version.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7fc1230
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/issue1531-min-dub-version.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -e
+
+. $(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/common.sh
+
+cat << EOF | $DUB - || die "Did not pass minDubVersion \"1.0\""
+/+ dub.sdl:
+    minDubVersion "1.0"
++/
+void main() {}
+EOF
+
+! cat << EOF | $DUB - || die "Did pass minDubVersion \"99.0\""
+/+ dub.sdl:
+    minDubVersion "99.0"
++/
+void main() {}
+EOF