diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Revision history for general-allocate
 
+## 0.2.1.4 -- 2023-03-01
+
+* Allow older `primitive`
+
 ## 0.2.1.3 -- 2023-03-01
 
 * Fix build with GHC 8.10
diff --git a/general-allocate.cabal b/general-allocate.cabal
--- a/general-allocate.cabal
+++ b/general-allocate.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cabal-version:      3.0
 name:               general-allocate
-version:            0.2.1.3
+version:            0.2.1.4
 license:            Apache-2.0
 license-file:       LICENSE
 author:             Shea Levy
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     , base             ^>= { 4.14, 4.16, 4.17 }
     , containers       ^>= { 0.6 }
     , mtl              ^>= { 2.2, 2.3 }
-    , primitive        ^>= { 0.8 }
+    , primitive        ^>= { 0.7, 0.8 }
     , resourcet        ^>= { 1.3 }
     , safe-exceptions  ^>= { 0.1 }
     , transformers     ^>= { 0.5, 0.6 }