diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
index d1455744..3cc2fa96 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Requires libvips v8.14.2
   [#3674](https://github.com/lovell/sharp/pull/3674)
   [@bianjunjie1981](https://github.com/bianjunjie1981)
 
+* Guard use of smartcrop premultiplied option to prevent warning (regression in 0.32.1).
+  [#3710](https://github.com/lovell/sharp/issues/3710)
+
 * Prevent over-compute in affine-based rotate before resize.
   [#3722](https://github.com/lovell/sharp/issues/3722)
 
diff --git a/src/pipeline.cc b/src/pipeline.cc
index 73d2b5af..30cea840 100644
--- a/src/pipeline.cc
+++ b/src/pipeline.cc
@@ -477,7 +477,9 @@ class PipelineWorker : public Napi::AsyncWorker {
 
             image = image.smartcrop(baton->width, baton->height, VImage::option()
               ->set("interesting", baton->position == 16 ? VIPS_INTERESTING_ENTROPY : VIPS_INTERESTING_ATTENTION)
+#if (VIPS_MAJOR_VERSION >= 8 && VIPS_MINOR_VERSION >= 15)
               ->set("premultiplied", shouldPremultiplyAlpha)
+#endif
               ->set("attention_x", &attention_x)
               ->set("attention_y", &attention_y));
             baton->hasCropOffset = true;