diff --git a/recipes/breseq/build.sh b/recipes/breseq/build.sh
index e9e296ababe78..f3700bd7c9d5c 100644
--- a/recipes/breseq/build.sh
+++ b/recipes/breseq/build.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -x -e
+
+
 export CFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include"
 export LDFLAGS="-L$PREFIX/lib"
 export CPATH=${PREFIX}/include
 
+gcc -v
+
 mkdir -p $PREFIX/bin
 ./configure --prefix=${PREFIX}
 make 
diff --git a/recipes/breseq/disable-compiler-version-check.patch b/recipes/breseq/disable-compiler-version-check.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..80255ab9f5750
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/breseq/disable-compiler-version-check.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff --git a/src/c/breseq/libbreseq/json.hpp b/src/c/breseq/libbreseq/json.hpp
+index a39dc5af..d6aaa5e5 100644
+--- a/src/c/breseq/libbreseq/json.hpp
++++ b/src/c/breseq/libbreseq/json.hpp
+@@ -57,17 +57,6 @@ SOFTWARE.
+ #include <utility> // declval, forward, make_pair, move, pair, swap
+ #include <vector> // vector
+ 
+-// exclude unsupported compilers
+-#if defined(__clang__)
+-    #if (__clang_major__ * 10000 + __clang_minor__ * 100 + __clang_patchlevel__) < 30400
+-        #error "unsupported Clang version - see https://github.com/nlohmann/json#supported-compilers"
+-    #endif
+-#elif defined(__GNUC__)
+-    #if (__GNUC__ * 10000 + __GNUC_MINOR__ * 100 + __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__) < 40900
+-        #error "unsupported GCC version - see https://github.com/nlohmann/json#supported-compilers"
+-    #endif
+-#endif
+-
+ // disable float-equal warnings on GCC/clang
+ #if defined(__clang__) || defined(__GNUC__) || defined(__GNUG__)
+     #pragma GCC diagnostic push
diff --git a/recipes/breseq/meta.yaml b/recipes/breseq/meta.yaml
index 4708bd8bacacf..e23d280c63739 100644
--- a/recipes/breseq/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/breseq/meta.yaml
@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@
-{% set name = "breseq" %}
-{% set version = "0.31.1" %}
+{% set version = "0.32.1" %}
+{% set sha256 = "c017c2641459975e66f46218475d56629d6ac4a6834657d1fc973be52e82d17f" %}
 
 package:
-  name: {{ name|lower }}
-  version: {{ version }}
+  name: breseq
+  version: '{{version}}'
 
 build:
-  number: 3
+  number: 0
+  patches:
+    - disable-compiler-version-check.patch
 
 source:
   url: https://github.com/barricklab/breseq/releases/download/v{{ version }}/breseq-{{ version }}-Source.tar.gz
-  sha256: 52471eb1c90b1b564243ad6d1c668a82a5539ef742b0badbbb9c7b3fcc2afac3
+  sha256: {{ sha256 }}
 
 requirements:
   build:
     - {{ compiler('c') }}
+    - {{ compiler('cxx') }}
   host:
     - zlib
   run:
@@ -29,6 +32,8 @@ test:
 
 about:
   home: https://github.com/barricklab/breseq
-  license: GPLv3
+  license: GPL-3.0
   license_file: COPYING
-  summary: 'A computational pipeline for finding mutations relative to a reference sequence in short-read DNA re-sequencing data.'
+  license_family: GPL
+  summary: A computational pipeline for finding mutations relative to a reference
+    sequence in short-read DNA re-sequencing data.