diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Revision history for beam-large-records
 
+## 0.1.2 -- 2025-07-19
+
+* Relax bounds (Gabriele Sales)
+* Drop unused dependencies
+
 ## 0.1.1 -- 2025-03-11
 
 * First released version
diff --git a/beam-large-records.cabal b/beam-large-records.cabal
--- a/beam-large-records.cabal
+++ b/beam-large-records.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cabal-version:      2.4
 name:               beam-large-records
-version:            0.1.1
+version:            0.1.2
 synopsis:           Integration of large-records with beam-core.
 description:        This package provides the necessary instances that make
                     it possible to use records defined with large-records as
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
 tested-with:        GHC ==8.10.7
                     GHC ==9.2.8
                     GHC ==9.4.8
-                    GHC ==9.6.6
+                    GHC ==9.6.7
+                    GHC ==9.8.4
 
 source-repository head
   type:     git
@@ -36,12 +37,10 @@
   build-depends:
       -- lower bound on beam-core is necessary
       -- see https://github.com/haskell-beam/beam/issues/585
-      base           >= 4.14     && < 4.19
+      base           >= 4.14     && < 4.20
     , beam-core      >= 0.10.3.0 && < 0.11
     , large-generics >= 0.2      && < 0.3
     , microlens      >= 0.4      && < 0.5
-    , sop-core       >= 0.5      && < 0.6
-    , text           >= 1.2      && < 2.1
   hs-source-dirs:
       src
   default-language:
@@ -49,6 +48,7 @@
   ghc-options:
       -Wall
       -Wredundant-constraints
+      -Wunused-packages
       -fmax-refinement-hole-fits=0
       -- The proxying from GHC generics to LR generics needs orphans
       -Wno-orphans
@@ -79,17 +79,20 @@
     , beam-core
     , beam-large-records
     , beam-sqlite
-    , ghc-prim
-    , large-generics
     , large-records
     , microlens
-    , record-dot-preprocessor
     , record-hasfield
     , sqlite-simple
     , tasty
     , tasty-hunit
     , text
     , time
+
+      -- dependencies needed when using large-records
+      -- (cannot enable -Wunused-packages for tihs reason)
+    , ghc-prim
+    , large-generics
+    , record-hasfield
   ghc-options:
       -Wall
       -Wredundant-constraints