diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
index 6d76530..2a5eadb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ jobs:
         config:
           - {os: macOS-latest,    r: 'release'}
           - {os: windows-latest,  r: 'devel'}
+          - {os: windows-latest,  r: 'release'}
+          - {os: windows-latest,  r: '4.2'}
           - {os: windows-latest,  r: '4.1'}
-          - {os: windows-latest,  r: '3.6'}
           - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'devel', http-user-agent: 'release'}
           - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'release'}
           - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-1'}
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 09f8c1d..adc5d2e 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: pdftools
 Type: Package
 Title: Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents
-Version: 3.3.3
+Version: 3.4.0
 Authors@R: person("Jeroen", "Ooms", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "jeroen@berkeley.edu",
       comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4035-0289"))
 Description: Utilities based on 'libpoppler' for extracting text, fonts, attachments and 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ba20438..953cc95 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+3.4.0
+  - Windows: update to poppler 23.08.0 + deps
+
 3.3.3
   - Fix a bug in the version checking macro
   - Remove CXX11 from Makevars.win
diff --git a/src/Makevars.win b/src/Makevars.win
index 9f72c49..b1a22f9 100644
--- a/src/Makevars.win
+++ b/src/Makevars.win
@@ -1,23 +1,14 @@
-VERSION=22.04.0
 POPPLERDATA=share/poppler
-
-# Need older poppler for R < 4.0
-ifeq ($(R_COMPILED_BY),gcc 4.9.3)
-VERSION=0.73.0
-POPPLERDATA=poppler-data-0.4.9
-LIBHARFBUZZ=-lharfbuzz
-endif
-
-RWINLIB=../windows/poppler-$(VERSION)
+RWINLIB=../windows/poppler
 PKG_CXXFLAGS=-Dpoppler_cpp_EXPORTS -DBUNDLE_POPPLER_DATA
 PKG_CPPFLAGS=-I$(RWINLIB)/include/poppler/cpp \
 	-I$(RWINLIB)/include/poppler
 
 PKG_LIBS= \
 	-L$(RWINLIB)/lib${subst gcc,,${COMPILED_BY}}${R_ARCH} \
-	-L$(RWINLIB)/lib${R_ARCH} \
+	-L$(RWINLIB)/lib \
 	-lpoppler-cpp -lpoppler -llcms2 -ljpeg -lpng16 -ltiff -lopenjp2 \
-	-lfreetype $(LIBHARFBUZZ) -lfreetype -lbz2 -liconv -lz
+	-lfreetype -lfreetype -lbz2 -liconv -lz
 
 all: clean winlibs
 
@@ -25,7 +16,7 @@ clean:
 	rm -f $(OBJECTS) $(SHLIB)
 
 winlibs:
-	"${R_HOME}/bin${R_ARCH_BIN}/Rscript.exe" "../tools/winlibs.R" $(VERSION)
+	"${R_HOME}/bin${R_ARCH_BIN}/Rscript.exe" "../tools/winlibs.R"
 	rm -Rf ../inst/share && mkdir -p ../inst/share
 	cp -Rf $(RWINLIB)/$(POPPLERDATA) ../inst/share/poppler
 
diff --git a/tools/winlibs.R b/tools/winlibs.R
index ab50277..98703f1 100644
--- a/tools/winlibs.R
+++ b/tools/winlibs.R
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
-# Build against mingw-w64 build of poppler 0.57.0
-VERSION <- commandArgs(TRUE)
-if(!file.exists(sprintf("../windows/poppler-%s/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-document.h", VERSION))){
-  if(getRversion() < "3.3.0") setInternet2()
-  download.file(sprintf("https://github.com/rwinlib/poppler/archive/v%s.zip", VERSION),
-                "lib.zip", quiet = TRUE)
+if(!file.exists("../windows/poppler/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-document.h")){
+  unlink("../windows", recursive = TRUE)
+  url <- if(grepl("aarch", R.version$platform)){
+    "https://github.com/r-windows/bundles/releases/download/poppler-23.08.0/poppler-23.08.0-clang-aarch64.tar.xz"
+  } else if(getRversion() >= "4.2") {
+    "https://github.com/r-windows/bundles/releases/download/poppler-23.08.0/poppler-23.08.0-ucrt-x86_64.tar.xz"
+  } else {
+    "https://github.com/rwinlib/poppler/archive/v22.04.0.tar.gz"
+  }
+  download.file(url, basename(url), quiet = TRUE)
   dir.create("../windows", showWarnings = FALSE)
-  unzip("lib.zip", exdir = "../windows")
-  unlink("lib.zip")
+  untar(basename(url), exdir = "../windows", tar = 'internal')
+  unlink(basename(url))
+  setwd("../windows")
+  file.rename(list.files(), 'poppler')
 }
-
-# Download extra poppler data
-#if(!file.exists("../windows/poppler-data-0.4.8")){
-#  download.file("https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-0.4.8.tar.gz", "data.tar.gz", quiet = TRUE)
-#  untar("data.tar.gz", exdir = "../windows")
-#  unlink("data.tar.gz")
-#}