diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 User-visible changes in hledger-ui.
 See also the hledger changelog.
 
+# 1.14.2 2019-03-20
+
+- support brick 0.47+ as well, to get into stackage nightly.
+
 # 1.14.1 2019-03-20
 
 - require brick <0.47 to fix build (#995)
diff --git a/Hledger/UI/Main.hs b/Hledger/UI/Main.hs
--- a/Hledger/UI/Main.hs
+++ b/Hledger/UI/Main.hs
@@ -230,8 +230,13 @@
 
         -- and start the app. Must be inside the withManager block
 #if MIN_VERSION_vty(5,15,0)
-        let myVty = mkVty mempty
+        let mkvty = mkVty mempty
 #else
-        let myVty = mkVty def
+        let mkvty = mkVty def
 #endif
-        void $ customMain myVty (Just eventChan) brickapp ui
+#if MIN_VERSION_brick(0,47,0)
+        vty0 <- mkvty
+        void $ customMain vty0 mkvty (Just eventChan) brickapp ui
+#else
+        void $ customMain mkvty (Just eventChan) brickapp ui
+#endif
diff --git a/hledger-ui.cabal b/hledger-ui.cabal
--- a/hledger-ui.cabal
+++ b/hledger-ui.cabal
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 --
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 --
--- hash: 2ae377e0bb3586d7496e90392593821cb19aedaa42e2c66c4da319e0d0fbbc95
+-- hash: f9ea5523eba91a10f52f9d821483b82f77605674174f9f062dc10116047094d8
 
 name:           hledger-ui
-version:        1.14.1
+version:        1.14.2
 synopsis:       Curses-style user interface for the hledger accounting tool
 description:    This is hledger's curses-style interface.
                 It is simpler and more convenient for browsing data than the command-line interface,
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
   hs-source-dirs:
       ./.
   ghc-options: -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind -fno-warn-name-shadowing -fno-warn-missing-signatures -fno-warn-type-defaults -fno-warn-orphans
-  cpp-options: -DVERSION="1.14.1"
+  cpp-options: -DVERSION="1.14.2"
   build-depends:
       ansi-terminal >=0.6.2.3
     , async
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
     buildable: False
   else
     build-depends:
-        brick >=0.23 && <0.47
+        brick >=0.23
       , unix
       , vty >=5.5
   if flag(threaded)