diff --git a/Data/AppSettings.hs b/Data/AppSettings.hs
--- a/Data/AppSettings.hs
+++ b/Data/AppSettings.hs
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 	readSettings,
 	ParseException,
 	saveSettings,
-	setSetting) where
+	setSetting,
+	getSetting') where
 
 import System.Directory
 import qualified Data.Map as M
diff --git a/Data/AppSettingsInternal.hs b/Data/AppSettingsInternal.hs
--- a/Data/AppSettingsInternal.hs
+++ b/Data/AppSettingsInternal.hs
@@ -67,8 +67,10 @@
 -- if the setting is invalid in the config file instead of silently
 -- give you the default?
 
--- | More low-level, please use the second function you get from 'readSettings',
--- wrapped in a 'GetSetting' newtype.
+-- | Most of the time you can use the second function you get from 'readSettings',
+-- wrapped in a 'GetSetting' newtype, however sometimes it's nicer to just pass
+-- a single 'Conf' to other functions if you're going to read or
+-- write to the configuration. The GetSetting lets you only read.
 getSetting' :: (Read a) => Conf -> Setting a -> a
 getSetting' conf (Setting key defaultV) = fromMaybe defaultV $ getSettingValueFromConf conf key
 getSetting' conf (ListSetting key defaultV) = case getSettingValueFromConf conf $ key ++ "_1" of
diff --git a/app-settings.cabal b/app-settings.cabal
--- a/app-settings.cabal
+++ b/app-settings.cabal
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 -- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
 
 name:                app-settings
-version:             0.2.0.0
+version:             0.2.0.1
 synopsis:            A library to manage application settings (INI file-like)
 description:         
   A library to deal with application settings.
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
                        Data.AppSettingsInternal
   -- other-extensions:    
   build-depends:       base >=4.6 && <5,
-                       mtl == 2.1.*,
+                       mtl >= 2.1 && <2.3,
                        containers == 0.5.*,
                        directory == 1.2.*,
                        text >= 0.10,
@@ -114,9 +114,9 @@
   main-is: Tests.hs
   default-language:    Haskell2010
   build-depends:       base,
-                       hspec >= 1.8 && <1.9,
+                       hspec >= 1.8 && <1.10,
                        HUnit >= 1.2 && <1.3,
-                       mtl == 2.1.*,
+                       mtl >= 2.1 && <2.3,
                        containers == 0.5.*,
                        directory == 1.2.*,
                        text >= 0.10,