diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f8bc538f1ec..84410eab116 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 - Add Quality Declaration Document[\#910](https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx/issues/910)
 - Make `cxx::string::capacity` a `static` method[\#979](https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx/issues/979)
 - Restructure iceoryx tools [\#471](https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx/issues/471)
+- Upgrade GTest/GMock to v1.10 [\#841](https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx/issues/841)
 
 **API Breaking Changes:**
 
diff --git a/cmake/googletest/googletest.cmake.in b/cmake/googletest/googletest.cmake.in
index c942922efdc..93fb0201308 100644
--- a/cmake/googletest/googletest.cmake.in
+++ b/cmake/googletest/googletest.cmake.in
@@ -19,26 +19,13 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
 project(googletest-download NONE)
 
 include(ExternalProject)
-if(WIN32)
-    ExternalProject_Add(googletest
-      GIT_REPOSITORY    https://github.com/google/googletest.git
-      GIT_TAG           release-1.10.0
-      SOURCE_DIR        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/dependencies/googletest/src"
-      BINARY_DIR        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/dependencies/googletest/build"
-      CONFIGURE_COMMAND ""
-      BUILD_COMMAND     ""
-      INSTALL_COMMAND   ""
-      TEST_COMMAND      ""
-    )
-else()
-    ExternalProject_Add(googletest
-      GIT_REPOSITORY    https://github.com/google/googletest.git
-      GIT_TAG           release-1.8.1
-      SOURCE_DIR        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/dependencies/googletest/src"
-      BINARY_DIR        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/dependencies/googletest/build"
-      CONFIGURE_COMMAND ""
-      BUILD_COMMAND     ""
-      INSTALL_COMMAND   ""
-      TEST_COMMAND      ""
-    )
-endif(WIN32)
+ExternalProject_Add(googletest
+    GIT_REPOSITORY    https://github.com/google/googletest.git
+    GIT_TAG           release-1.10.0
+    SOURCE_DIR        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/dependencies/googletest/src"
+    BINARY_DIR        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/dependencies/googletest/build"
+    CONFIGURE_COMMAND ""
+    BUILD_COMMAND     ""
+    INSTALL_COMMAND   ""
+    TEST_COMMAND      ""
+)