diff --git a/exon.cabal b/exon.cabal
--- a/exon.cabal
+++ b/exon.cabal
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 
 name:           exon
-version:        1.5.0.0
+version:        1.5.0.1
 synopsis:       Customizable quasiquote interpolation
 description:    See https://hackage.haskell.org/package/exon/docs/Exon.html
 category:       String
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
   ghc-options: -Wall -Widentities -Wincomplete-uni-patterns -Wmissing-deriving-strategies -Wredundant-constraints -Wunused-type-patterns -Wunused-packages
   build-depends:
       base ==4.*
-    , criterion
+    , criterion >=1.5 && <1.7
     , exon
     , incipit-base >=0.4 && <0.6
   mixins: