diff --git a/recipes/variant-lite/all/conandata.yml b/recipes/variant-lite/all/conandata.yml
index ba0120108f73a..a253afe2aabae 100644
--- a/recipes/variant-lite/all/conandata.yml
+++ b/recipes/variant-lite/all/conandata.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 sources:
-  "1.2.2":
-    url: https://github.com/martinmoene/variant-lite/archive/v1.2.2.tar.gz
-    sha256: 97334108c3a92f7becc74e2798ab8e0ea57fd67d4ad893ec0b0b8e1c35bb411c
   "2.0.0":
-    url: https://github.com/martinmoene/variant-lite/archive/v2.0.0.tar.gz
-    sha256: 70c1509e24d03abfd22d2e702ab398238e69658b7b2890ce1d7e9731d6b5a7cb
+    url: "https://github.com/martinmoene/variant-lite/archive/v2.0.0.tar.gz"
+    sha256: "70c1509e24d03abfd22d2e702ab398238e69658b7b2890ce1d7e9731d6b5a7cb"
+  "1.2.2":
+    url: "https://github.com/martinmoene/variant-lite/archive/v1.2.2.tar.gz"
+    sha256: "97334108c3a92f7becc74e2798ab8e0ea57fd67d4ad893ec0b0b8e1c35bb411c"
diff --git a/recipes/variant-lite/all/conanfile.py b/recipes/variant-lite/all/conanfile.py
index 90106bb478bcc..14dd9dcb977eb 100644
--- a/recipes/variant-lite/all/conanfile.py
+++ b/recipes/variant-lite/all/conanfile.py
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
-import os
 from conans import ConanFile, tools
+import os
+
+required_conan_version = ">=1.43.0"
 
-required_conan_version = ">=1.28.0"
 
 class VariantLiteConan(ConanFile):
     name = "variant-lite"
     url = "https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index"
     homepage = "https://github.com/martinmoene/variant-lite"
     description = "variant lite - A C++17-like variant, a type-safe union for C++98, C++11 and later in a single-file header-only library"
-    topics = ("conan", "cpp98", "cpp11", "cpp14", "cpp17", "variant", "variant-implementations")
+    topics = ("cpp98", "cpp11", "cpp14", "cpp17", "variant", "variant-implementations")
     license = "BSL-1.0"
+    settings = "os", "arch", "compiler", "build_type"
     no_copy_source = True
 
     @property
@@ -20,18 +22,22 @@ def package_id(self):
         self.info.header_only()
 
     def source(self):
-        tools.get(**self.conan_data["sources"][self.version])
-        extracted_dir = self.name + "-" + self.version
-        os.rename(extracted_dir, self._source_subfolder)
+        tools.get(**self.conan_data["sources"][self.version],
+                  destination=self._source_subfolder, strip_root=True)
 
     def package(self):
         self.copy("*.hpp", dst="include", src=os.path.join(self._source_subfolder, "include"))
         self.copy("LICENSE.txt", dst="licenses", src=self._source_subfolder)
 
     def package_info(self):
+        self.cpp_info.set_property("cmake_file_name", "variant-lite")
+        self.cpp_info.set_property("cmake_target_name", "nonstd::variant-lite")
+
+        # TODO: to remove in conan v2 once cmake_find_package* generators removed
         self.cpp_info.filenames["cmake_find_package"] = "variant-lite"
         self.cpp_info.filenames["cmake_find_package_multi"] = "variant-lite"
         self.cpp_info.names["cmake_find_package"] = "nonstd"
         self.cpp_info.names["cmake_find_package_multi"] = "nonstd"
         self.cpp_info.components["variantlite"].names["cmake_find_package"] = "variant-lite"
         self.cpp_info.components["variantlite"].names["cmake_find_package_multi"] = "variant-lite"
+        self.cpp_info.components["variantlite"].set_property("cmake_target_name", "nonstd::variant-lite")
diff --git a/recipes/variant-lite/all/test_package/CMakeLists.txt b/recipes/variant-lite/all/test_package/CMakeLists.txt
index 91ff11209de6a..ee7a8aa722c74 100644
--- a/recipes/variant-lite/all/test_package/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/recipes/variant-lite/all/test_package/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1)
 project(test_package CXX)
 
 include(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/conanbuildinfo.cmake)
-conan_basic_setup()
+conan_basic_setup(TARGETS)
 
 find_package(variant-lite REQUIRED CONFIG)
 
diff --git a/recipes/variant-lite/all/test_package/conanfile.py b/recipes/variant-lite/all/test_package/conanfile.py
index abcaeed3f89b6..38f4483872d47 100644
--- a/recipes/variant-lite/all/test_package/conanfile.py
+++ b/recipes/variant-lite/all/test_package/conanfile.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-import os
 from conans import ConanFile, CMake, tools
+import os
 
 
 class TestPackageConan(ConanFile):
-    settings = "os", "compiler", "build_type", "arch"
+    settings = "os", "arch", "compiler", "build_type"
     generators = "cmake", "cmake_find_package_multi"
 
     def build(self):
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ def build(self):
         cmake.build()
 
     def test(self):
-        if not tools.cross_building(self.settings):
+        if not tools.cross_building(self):
             bin_path = os.path.join("bin", "test_package")
             self.run(bin_path, run_environment=True)
diff --git a/recipes/variant-lite/config.yml b/recipes/variant-lite/config.yml
index 565c7b3d31a66..9e6e28e463759 100644
--- a/recipes/variant-lite/config.yml
+++ b/recipes/variant-lite/config.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 versions:
-  "1.2.2":
-    folder: all
   "2.0.0":
     folder: all
+  "1.2.2":
+    folder: all