diff --git a/c_glib/doc/meson.build b/c_glib/doc/meson.build
index 82f300aa0363..9c92465f1a33 100644
--- a/c_glib/doc/meson.build
+++ b/c_glib/doc/meson.build
@@ -20,20 +20,7 @@ gi_docgen = find_program('gi-docgen')
 
 gi_docgen_toml_conf = configuration_data()
 gi_docgen_toml_conf.set('SOURCE_REFERENCE', source_reference)
-# We can't use "version.replace('-SNAPSHOT', '.dev')" here because
-# Ubuntu 20.04's Meson is < 0.58.0.
-if version_tag == ''
-    gi_docgen_version_tag = ''
-else
-    # GI-DocGen doesn't like MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-SNAPSHOT format.
-    gi_docgen_version_tag = '.dev'
-endif
-gi_docgen_version = '@0@.@1@.@2@@3@'.format(
-    version_major,
-    version_minor,
-    version_micro,
-    gi_docgen_version_tag,
-)
+gi_docgen_version = version.replace('-SNAPSHOT', '.dev')
 gi_docgen_toml_conf.set('VERSION', gi_docgen_version)
 
 gir_top_build_dir = meson.current_build_dir() / '..'
diff --git a/ci/scripts/cpp_build.sh b/ci/scripts/cpp_build.sh
index 19cfb00c7bec..c02d7894bcae 100755
--- a/ci/scripts/cpp_build.sh
+++ b/ci/scripts/cpp_build.sh
@@ -157,10 +157,6 @@ if [ "${ARROW_USE_MESON:-OFF}" = "ON" ]; then
   CC="${ORIGINAL_CC}"
   CXX="${ORIGINAL_CXX}"
 elif [ "${ARROW_EMSCRIPTEN:-OFF}" = "ON" ]; then
-  if [ "${UBUNTU}" = "20.04" ]; then
-    echo "arrow emscripten build is not supported on Ubuntu 20.04, run with UBUNTU=22.04"
-    exit -1
-  fi
   n_jobs=2 # Emscripten build fails on docker unless this is set really low
   source ~/emsdk/emsdk_env.sh
   export CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(em-config CACHE)/sysroot
diff --git a/ruby/red-arrow/ext/arrow/extconf.rb b/ruby/red-arrow/ext/arrow/extconf.rb
index 1ec96d95b3e7..bc6e4386de7c 100644
--- a/ruby/red-arrow/ext/arrow/extconf.rb
+++ b/ruby/red-arrow/ext/arrow/extconf.rb
@@ -62,13 +62,6 @@
   MESSAGE
 end
 
-# Old re2.pc (e.g. re2.pc on Ubuntu 20.04) may add -std=c++11. It
-# causes a build error because Apache Arrow C++ requires C++17 or
-# later.
-#
-# We can remove this when we drop support for Ubuntu 20.04.
-$CXXFLAGS.gsub!("-std=c++11", "")
-
 [
   ["glib2", "ext/glib2"],
 ].each do |name, relative_source_dir|