diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/abseil-cpp/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/abseil-cpp/package.py
index 5efe4b31ac6..cb7a4c8b825 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/abseil-cpp/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/abseil-cpp/package.py
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ class AbseilCpp(CMakePackage):
     depends_on("cmake@3.5:", when="@20190312:", type="build")
     depends_on("cmake@3.1:", type="build")
 
-    depends_on("googletest", type="build", when="@20220623:")
+    depends_on("googletest~absl", type="test", when="@20220623:")
 
     def cmake_args(self):
         run_tests = self.run_tests and self.spec.satisfies("@20220623:")
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/googletest/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/googletest/package.py
index bc84178d94f..afd74f14721 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/googletest/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/googletest/package.py
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ class Googletest(CMakePackage):
     maintainers("sethrj")
 
     version("main", branch="main")
+    version("1.15.2", sha256="7b42b4d6ed48810c5362c265a17faebe90dc2373c885e5216439d37927f02926")
+    version("1.15.0", sha256="7315acb6bf10e99f332c8a43f00d5fbb1ee6ca48c52f6b936991b216c586aaad")
     version("1.14.0", sha256="8ad598c73ad796e0d8280b082cebd82a630d73e73cd3c70057938a6501bba5d7")
     version("1.13.0", sha256="ad7fdba11ea011c1d925b3289cf4af2c66a352e18d4c7264392fead75e919363")
     version("1.12.1", sha256="81964fe578e9bd7c94dfdb09c8e4d6e6759e19967e397dbea48d1c10e45d0df2")
@@ -29,14 +31,18 @@ class Googletest(CMakePackage):
     depends_on("c", type="build")
     depends_on("cxx", type="build")
 
+    variant("absl", default=False, when="@1.12.1:", description="Build with abseil and RE2")
+    depends_on("abseil-cpp", when="+absl")
+    depends_on("re2", when="+absl")
+
     variant("gmock", default=True, when="@1.8:", description="Build with gmock")
     variant("pthreads", default=True, description="Build multithreaded version with pthreads")
     variant("shared", default=True, description="Build shared libraries (DLLs)")
 
     variant(
         "cxxstd",
-        default="11",
-        values=("98", "11", "14", "17"),
+        default="14",
+        values=("98", "11", "14", "17", "20"),
         multi=False,
         description="Use the specified C++ standard when building",
     )
@@ -48,12 +54,13 @@ def cmake_args(self):
         args = [
             self.define_from_variant("BUILD_SHARED_LIBS", "shared"),
             self.define_from_variant("CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD", "cxxstd"),
+            self.define_from_variant("BUILD_GMOCK", "gmock"),
+            self.define_from_variant("GTEST_HAS_ABSL", "absl"),
+            self.define("gtest_disable_pthreads", spec.satisfies("~pthreads")),
         ]
-        args.append(self.define("gtest_disable_pthreads", not spec.satisfies("+pthreads")))
-        if spec.satisfies("@1.8:"):
-            # New style (contains both Google Mock and Google Test)
+
+        if spec.satisfies("@:1.8.0"):
             args.append(self.define("BUILD_GTEST", True))
-            args.append(self.define_from_variant("BUILD_GMOCK", "gmock"))
 
         return args