diff --git a/configure b/configure
index c0018a304f..73af9a7b30 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ python_version=$($python -c 'import sys; print("%d.%d.%d" % (sys.version_info[0]
 python="$python -B"
 
 if test -z "$meson"; then
-    if test "$explicit_python" = no && has meson && version_ge "$(meson --version)" 0.59.2; then
+    if test "$explicit_python" = no && has meson && version_ge "$(meson --version)" 0.59.3; then
         meson=meson
     elif test $git_submodules_action != 'ignore' ; then
         meson=git
diff --git a/meson b/meson
index b25d94e7c7..12f9f04ba0 160000
--- a/meson
+++ b/meson
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit b25d94e7c77fda05a7fdfe8afe562cf9760d69da
+Subproject commit 12f9f04ba0decfda425dbbf9a501084c153a2d18
diff --git a/scripts/meson-buildoptions.py b/scripts/meson-buildoptions.py
index 256523c09d..96969d89ee 100755
--- a/scripts/meson-buildoptions.py
+++ b/scripts/meson-buildoptions.py
@@ -150,23 +150,7 @@ def print_parse(options):
     print("}")
 
 
-def fixup_options(options):
-    # Meson <= 0.60 does not include the choices in array options, fix that up
-    for opt in options:
-        if opt["name"] == "trace_backends":
-            opt["choices"] = [
-                "dtrace",
-                "ftrace",
-                "log",
-                "nop",
-                "simple",
-                "syslog",
-                "ust",
-            ]
-
-
 options = load_options(json.load(sys.stdin))
-fixup_options(options)
 print("# This file is generated by meson-buildoptions.py, do not edit!")
 print_help(options)
 print_parse(options)