diff --git a/BlogLiterately.cabal b/BlogLiterately.cabal
--- a/BlogLiterately.cabal
+++ b/BlogLiterately.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:           BlogLiterately
-Version:        0.8.1.5
+Version:        0.8.1.6
 Synopsis:       A tool for posting Haskelly articles to blogs
 Description:    Write blog posts in Markdown format, then use BlogLiterately
                 to do syntax highlighting, format ghci sessions, and upload
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
                    blaze-html >= 0.5 && < 0.9,
                    cmdargs >= 0.9.5 && < 0.11,
                    haxr >= 3000.11 && < 3000.12,
-                   pandoc >= 1.14 && < 1.17,
+                   pandoc >= 1.14 && < 1.18,
                    pandoc-types >= 1.16 && < 1.17,
                    pandoc-citeproc >= 0.1.2 && < 0.10,
                    highlighting-kate >= 0.5 && < 0.7,
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+0.8.1.6 (22 March 2016)
+-----------------------
+
+  * Allow `pandoc-1.17`
+
 0.8.1.5 (26 January 2016)
 -------------------------