diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## 0.2.0.0 -- 2022-10-03
 
+Relax text upper and lower bounds
+
+## 0.2.0.0 -- 2022-10-03
+
 - Add Observe.Event.BackendModification DSL
 - Generalize newOnceFlagIO to newOnceFlagMVar
 
diff --git a/eventuo11y.cabal b/eventuo11y.cabal
--- a/eventuo11y.cabal
+++ b/eventuo11y.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cabal-version:      3.0
 name:               eventuo11y
-version:            0.2.0.0
+version:            0.2.0.1
 synopsis:           An event-oriented observability library
 description:
   Instrument your Haskell codebase with wide, semantically meaningful events.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   See "Observe.Event.Backend" for documentation on writing an
   @EventBackend@.
 
-  See [Example.hs](https://github.com/shlevy/eventuo11y/tree/v0.2.0.0/Example.hs) for an example.
+  See [Example.hs](https://github.com/shlevy/eventuo11y/tree/v0.2.0.1/Example.hs) for an example.
 
   See [eventuo11y-batteries](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/eventuo11y-batteries) for miscellaneous
   framework-specific helpers.
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
     , exceptions     ^>=0.10.4
     , primitive      ^>=0.7
     , resourcet      ^>=1.2.4.3
-    , text           ^>=1.2.5.0
+    , text           >=1.2       && <2.1
     , time           >=1.9.3     && <1.12
     , unliftio-core  ^>=0.2.0.1
     , uuid           ^>=1.3.15