diff --git a/CHANGELOG.markdown b/CHANGELOG.markdown
--- a/CHANGELOG.markdown
+++ b/CHANGELOG.markdown
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+0.11.5
+------
+* Fixed issue #7, permitting the doctests to function against bytestring 0.9
+
 0.11.4
 ------
 * Fixed issue #6 with regards to the test harness performance.
diff --git a/bytes.cabal b/bytes.cabal
--- a/bytes.cabal
+++ b/bytes.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name:          bytes
 category:      Data, Serialization
-version:       0.11.4
+version:       0.11.5
 license:       BSD3
 cabal-version: >= 1.8
 license-file:  LICENSE
diff --git a/src/Data/Bytes/VarInt.hs b/src/Data/Bytes/VarInt.hs
--- a/src/Data/Bytes/VarInt.hs
+++ b/src/Data/Bytes/VarInt.hs
@@ -36,9 +36,11 @@
 
 -- | Integer/Word types serialized to base-128 variable-width ints.
 --
--- >>> runPutL $ serialize (97 :: Word64)
+-- >>> import Data.Monoid (mconcat)
+-- >>> import Data.ByteString.Lazy (toChunks)
+-- >>> mconcat $ toChunks $ runPutL $ serialize (97 :: Word64)
 -- "\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\NULa"
--- >>> runPutL $ serialize (97 :: VarInt Word64)
+-- >>> mconcat $ toChunks $ runPutL $ serialize (97 :: VarInt Word64)
 -- "a"
 newtype VarInt n = VarInt { unVarInt :: n }
   deriving (Eq, Ord, Show, Enum, Num, Integral, Bounded, Real, Bits)