diff --git a/higher-leveldb.cabal b/higher-leveldb.cabal
--- a/higher-leveldb.cabal
+++ b/higher-leveldb.cabal
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 -- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
 
 name:                higher-leveldb
-version:             0.1.0.2
+version:             0.1.0.3
 synopsis:            A rich monadic API for working with leveldb databases.
 description:         A rich monadic API for working with leveldb databases.
 homepage:            https://github.com/jeremyjh/higher-leveldb
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
                        , lifted-base
                        , leveldb-haskell == 0.2.*
                        , bytestring
-                       , resourcet
+                       , resourcet       <  0.5.0.0
                        , transformers-base
                        , mtl
                        , monad-control