diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Version 0.11.1.1 released 14 Aug 2015
+
+  * Fixed Network.Gitit.Initialize so it compiles with older pandoc (#506).
+  * Removed extra import of liftIO in Dot.hs plugin.
+
 Version 0.11.1 released 23 Jul 2015
 
   * Allow `commonmark` as a page type.
diff --git a/Network/Gitit/Initialize.hs b/Network/Gitit/Initialize.hs
--- a/Network/Gitit/Initialize.hs
+++ b/Network/Gitit/Initialize.hs
@@ -139,7 +139,6 @@
         -- note: we convert this (markdown) to the default page format
         converter = case pt of
                        Markdown   -> id
-                       CommonMark -> writeCommonMark defOpts . toPandoc
                        LaTeX      -> writeLaTeX defOpts . toPandoc
                        HTML       -> writeHtmlString defOpts . toPandoc
                        RST        -> writeRST defOpts . toPandoc
@@ -147,6 +146,11 @@
                        Org        -> writeOrg defOpts . toPandoc
                        DocBook    -> writeDocbook defOpts . toPandoc
                        MediaWiki  -> writeMediaWiki defOpts . toPandoc
+#if MIN_VERSION_pandoc(1,14,0)
+                       CommonMark -> writeCommonMark defOpts . toPandoc
+#else
+                       CommonMark -> error "CommonMark support requires pandoc >= 1.14"
+#endif
 
     welcomepath <- getDataFileName $ "data" </> "FrontPage" <.> "page"
     welcomecontents <- liftM converter $ readFileUTF8 welcomepath
diff --git a/gitit.cabal b/gitit.cabal
--- a/gitit.cabal
+++ b/gitit.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                gitit
-version:             0.11.1
+version:             0.11.1.1
 Cabal-version:       >= 1.6
 build-type:          Simple
 synopsis:            Wiki using happstack, git or darcs, and pandoc.
diff --git a/plugins/Dot.hs b/plugins/Dot.hs
--- a/plugins/Dot.hs
+++ b/plugins/Dot.hs
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 -- from the SHA package on HackageDB:
 import Data.Digest.Pure.SHA (sha1, showDigest)
 import System.FilePath ((</>))
-import Control.Monad.Trans (liftIO)
 
 plugin :: Plugin
 plugin = mkPageTransformM transformBlock