diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/jinja-version.yml b/changelogs/fragments/jinja-version.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d7ec4c1e821
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/jinja-version.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - Jinja2 version 3.1.0 or later is now required on the controller.
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py
index 1090acd3350..28738e62403 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py
@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ from ansible.module_utils.compat.version import LooseVersion
 # Used for determining if the system is running a new enough Jinja2 version
 # and should only restrict on our documented minimum versions
 jinja2_version = version('jinja2')
-if jinja2_version < LooseVersion('3.0'):
+if jinja2_version < LooseVersion('3.1'):
     raise SystemExit(
-        'ERROR: Ansible requires Jinja2 3.0 or newer on the controller. '
+        'ERROR: Ansible requires Jinja2 3.1 or newer on the controller. '
         'Current version: %s' % jinja2_version
     )
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 45c9c01b803..2daebde7d68 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # packages.  Thus, this should be the loosest set possible (only required
 # packages, not optional ones, and with the widest range of versions that could
 # be suitable)
-jinja2 >= 3.0.0
+jinja2 >= 3.1.0  # Jinja2 native macro support fixed in 3.1.0
 PyYAML >= 5.1  # PyYAML 5.1 is required for Python 3.8+ support
 cryptography
 packaging
diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/ansible.txt b/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/ansible.txt
index 45c9c01b803..2daebde7d68 100644
--- a/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/ansible.txt
+++ b/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/ansible.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # packages.  Thus, this should be the loosest set possible (only required
 # packages, not optional ones, and with the widest range of versions that could
 # be suitable)
-jinja2 >= 3.0.0
+jinja2 >= 3.1.0  # Jinja2 native macro support fixed in 3.1.0
 PyYAML >= 5.1  # PyYAML 5.1 is required for Python 3.8+ support
 cryptography
 packaging