diff --git a/Changelog.markdown b/Changelog.markdown
--- a/Changelog.markdown
+++ b/Changelog.markdown
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# v0.3.8 (2024-12-20)
+
+* add support for winery 1.5 but don't require it
+
 # v0.3.7 (2024-08-24)
 
 * enable building with GHC 9.6, 9.8, 9.10
diff --git a/curryer-rpc.cabal b/curryer-rpc.cabal
--- a/curryer-rpc.cabal
+++ b/curryer-rpc.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name: curryer-rpc
-Version: 0.3.7
+Version: 0.3.8
 License: PublicDomain
 Build-Type: Simple
 Homepage: https://github.com/agentm/curryer
diff --git a/src/Network/RPC/Curryer/Server.hs b/src/Network/RPC/Curryer/Server.hs
--- a/src/Network/RPC/Curryer/Server.hs
+++ b/src/Network/RPC/Curryer/Server.hs
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 #if CURRYER_PASS_SCHEMA == 1
 msgDeserialise = deserialise
 #else
-msgDeserialise = deserialiseOnly
+msgDeserialise = deserialiseOnly'
 #endif
 
 data Locking a = Locking (MVar ()) a
@@ -288,8 +288,8 @@
     Nothing
 
 --use winery to decode only the data structure and skip the schema
-deserialiseOnly :: forall s. Serialise s => BS.ByteString -> Either WineryException s
-deserialiseOnly bytes = do
+deserialiseOnly' :: forall s. Serialise s => BS.ByteString -> Either WineryException s
+deserialiseOnly' bytes = do
   dec <- getDecoder (schema (Proxy :: Proxy s))
   pure (evalDecoder dec bytes)