diff --git a/hexpat.cabal b/hexpat.cabal
--- a/hexpat.cabal
+++ b/hexpat.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Cabal-Version: >= 1.6
 Name: hexpat
-Version: 0.20.7
+Version: 0.20.8
 Synopsis: XML parser/formatter based on expat
 Description:
   This package provides a general purpose Haskell XML library using Expat to
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     0.20.1 fix an unfortunate crash when used in parallel processing and greatly improve
     performance; 0.20.2 make parseSaxG lazier; 0.20.3 minor build issues; 0.20.4 remove
     dependency on extensible-exceptions; 0.20.5 bump text upper bound; 0.20.6 bump text again
-    to include 1.1.x.x; 0.20.7 bump text again for 1.2.x.x.
+    to include 1.1.x.x; 0.20.7 bump text again for 1.2.x.x; 0.20.8 bump utf8-string dep.
 Category: XML
 License: BSD3
 License-File: LICENSE
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
     bytestring,
     transformers,
     text >= 0.5.0.0 && < 1.3.0.0,
-    utf8-string == 0.3.*,
+    utf8-string >= 0.3 && < 1.1,
     deepseq >= 1.1.0.0 && < 1.4.0.0,
     containers,
     List >= 0.4.2 && < 0.6