diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+## 1.1.6
+
+### Other Changes
+
+* Increased upper-bound of `base` to < 4.12.
+
 ## 1.1.5
 
 ### Other Changes
diff --git a/exhaustive.cabal b/exhaustive.cabal
--- a/exhaustive.cabal
+++ b/exhaustive.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                exhaustive
-version:             1.1.5
+version:             1.1.6
 synopsis:            Compile time checks that a computation considers producing data through all possible constructors
 description: For a brief tutorial to @exhaustive@, check out the documentation for "Control.Exhaustive", which contains a small example.
 homepage:            http://github.com/ocharles/exhaustive
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   exposed-modules:     Control.Exhaustive
   -- other-modules:
   other-extensions:    ConstraintKinds, FlexibleContexts, FlexibleInstances, FunctionalDependencies, GADTs, RankNTypes, ScopedTypeVariables, TypeFamilies, TypeOperators, UndecidableInstances
-  build-depends:       base >=4.7 && <4.11
+  build-depends:       base >=4.7 && <4.12
                      , generics-sop >=0.1 && <0.4
                      , transformers >=0.3 && <0.6
                      , template-haskell