diff --git a/BlogLiterately-diagrams.cabal b/BlogLiterately-diagrams.cabal
--- a/BlogLiterately-diagrams.cabal
+++ b/BlogLiterately-diagrams.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                BlogLiterately-diagrams
-version:             0.2.0.4
+version:             0.2.0.5
 synopsis:            Include images in blog posts with inline diagrams code
 description:         A plugin for @BlogLiterately@ (<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/BlogLiterately>) which turns inline diagrams
                      code into images.
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
 library
   default-language:    Haskell2010
   exposed-modules:     Text.BlogLiterately.Diagrams
-  build-depends:       base >= 4.3 && < 4.9,
+  build-depends:       base >= 4.3 && < 4.10,
                        containers,
                        filepath,
                        directory,
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
                        JuicyPixels         >= 3.2 && < 3.3,
                        diagrams-builder    >= 0.5 && < 0.9,
                        BlogLiterately      >= 0.6 && < 0.9,
-                       pandoc              >= 1.16 && < 1.19,
+                       pandoc              >= 1.16 && < 1.20,
                        safe ==0.3.*
   hs-source-dirs:      src
 
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+* 0.2.0.5 (3 December 2016)
+
+  - allow `base-4.9`
+  - allow `pandoc-1.19`
+
 * 0.2.0.4 (28 November 2016)
 
 updates for diagrams-1.4 etc: