diff --git a/casing.cabal b/casing.cabal
--- a/casing.cabal
+++ b/casing.cabal
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 -- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
 
 name:                casing
-version:             0.1.2.0
+version:             0.1.2.1
 synopsis:            Convert between various source code casing conventions
 description:         Converts between camelCase, PascalCase, kebab-case, and
                      three flavors of snake_case.
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   exposed-modules:     Text.Casing
   -- other-modules:       
   -- other-extensions:    
-  build-depends:       base >=4.6 && <5
+  build-depends:       base >=4.8 && <5
                ,       split
   -- hs-source-dirs:      
   default-language:    Haskell2010
