diff --git a/scripts/cmake/CompilerSetup.cmake b/scripts/cmake/CompilerSetup.cmake
index 0cac560413601454e278c50cafc6c3ee9abf3425..695c3ca8749ec911a5c255ecc2f5fdbb4a7f3ce2 100644
--- a/scripts/cmake/CompilerSetup.cmake
+++ b/scripts/cmake/CompilerSetup.cmake
@@ -74,9 +74,11 @@ if(COMPILER_IS_GCC OR COMPILER_IS_CLANG OR COMPILER_IS_INTEL)
     endif()
 
     if(COMPILER_IS_GCC)
-        if(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS ${ogs.minimum_version.gcc})
-            message(FATAL_ERROR "Aborting: GCC ${ogs.minimum_version.gcc} is \
-                required! Found version ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION}.")
+        if(NOT "${HOSTNAME}" MATCHES "frontend.*") # TODO: remove later
+            if(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS ${ogs.minimum_version.gcc})
+                message(FATAL_ERROR "Aborting: GCC ${ogs.minimum_version.gcc} is \
+                    required! Found version ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION}.")
+            endif()
         endif()
         add_compile_options(-fext-numeric-literals)
         include(GCCSanitizer)
diff --git a/web/data/versions.json b/web/data/versions.json
index 79563e9cbe903f83655247d00b07d5e0aeb17607..d429d072372ad544b22c7bbdbde88dd54791dff3 100644
--- a/web/data/versions.json
+++ b/web/data/versions.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "minimum_version": {
-    "gcc": "8.0",
+    "gcc": "9.0",
     "clang": "9.0",
     "msvc": {
       "year": "2019",