diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 87966facb4..6a33ce9e1c 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ endif
 
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2020.02"
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_VERSION_5_6
+	bool "qt 5.6 support removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  Support for Qt 5.6 is EOL and has been removed. The current
+	  version (5.12 or later) has been selected instead.
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_CURL
 	bool "BR2_PACKAGE_CURL was renamed"
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL_CURL
diff --git a/package/qt5/Config.in b/package/qt5/Config.in
index def79fa680..7051bf517a 100644
--- a/package/qt5/Config.in
+++ b/package/qt5/Config.in
@@ -11,14 +11,22 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_JSCORE_AVAILABLE
 	# ARM needs BLX, so v5t+
 	depends on !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV4
 
-comment "Qt5 needs a toolchain w/ wchar, NPTL, C++, dynamic library"
-	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_USE_WCHAR || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL || BR2_STATIC_LIBS
+comment "Qt5 needs a toolchain w/ gcc >= 4.8, wchar, NPTL, C++, dynamic library"
+	depends on !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV4
+	depends on !BR2_arc && !BR2_nios2 && !BR2_xtensa
+	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_USE_WCHAR || \
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL || BR2_STATIC_LIBS || \
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8
 
 menuconfig BR2_PACKAGE_QT5
 	bool "Qt5"
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 # C++11
+	depends on !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV4 # needs ARMv5+
+	# no built-in double-conversion support
+	depends on !BR2_arc && !BR2_nios2 && !BR2_xtensa
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_QT5BASE
 	help
@@ -29,31 +37,9 @@ menuconfig BR2_PACKAGE_QT5
 
 if BR2_PACKAGE_QT5
 
-choice
-	prompt "Qt5 version"
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_VERSION_LATEST
-	bool "Latest (5.12)"
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 # C++11
-	depends on !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV4 # needs ARMv5+
-	# no built-in double-conversion support
-	depends on !BR2_arc && !BR2_nios2 && !BR2_xtensa
-	help
-	  This option builds Qt 5.12, which is licensed under
-	  (L)GPL-3.0+.
-
-comment "Latest Qt version needs a toolchain w/ gcc >= 4.8"
-	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8
-	depends on !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV4
-	depends on !BR2_arc && !BR2_nios2 && !BR2_xtensa
-
-config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_VERSION_5_6
-	bool "LTS (5.6)"
-	help
-	  This option builds Qt 5.6, which is licensed under
-	  (L)GPL-2.0+.
-
-endchoice
+	bool
+	default y
 
 source "package/qt5/qt53d/Config.in"
 source "package/qt5/qt5base/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5.mk b/package/qt5/qt5.mk
index d94d9cc99f..7805b575f5 100644
--- a/package/qt5/qt5.mk
+++ b/package/qt5/qt5.mk
@@ -4,15 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_VERSION_LATEST),y)
 QT5_VERSION_MAJOR = 5.12
 QT5_VERSION = $(QT5_VERSION_MAJOR).7
 QT5_SOURCE_TARBALL_PREFIX = everywhere-src
-else
-QT5_VERSION_MAJOR = 5.6
-QT5_VERSION = $(QT5_VERSION_MAJOR).3
-QT5_SOURCE_TARBALL_PREFIX = opensource-src
-endif
 QT5_SITE = https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/$(QT5_VERSION_MAJOR)/$(QT5_VERSION)/submodules
 
 include $(sort $(wildcard package/qt5/*/*.mk))