diff --git a/Network/HTTP/Proxy.hs b/Network/HTTP/Proxy.hs
--- a/Network/HTTP/Proxy.hs
+++ b/Network/HTTP/Proxy.hs
@@ -171,7 +171,6 @@
                         Wai.KnownLength l ->
                             HC.requestBodySourceIO (fromIntegral l) (sourceRequestBody mwreq)
                 , HC.decompress = const True
-                , HC.checkStatus = \_ _ _ -> Nothing
                 }
         handle (respond . errorResponse) $
             HC.withResponse hreq mgr $ \res -> do
diff --git a/Test/Request.hs b/Test/Request.hs
--- a/Test/Request.hs
+++ b/Test/Request.hs
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@
     return $ req
         { HC.method = if HC.method req /= method then method else HC.method req
         , HC.requestBody = fromMaybe (HC.requestBody req) mbody
-        -- In this test program we want to pass error pages back to the test
-        -- function so the error output can be compared.
-        , HC.checkStatus = \ _ _ _ -> Nothing
         }
 
 
diff --git a/Test/testsuite.hs b/Test/testsuite.hs
--- a/Test/testsuite.hs
+++ b/Test/testsuite.hs
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
             -- Getting a TlsException shows that we have successfully upgraded
             -- from HTTP to HTTPS. Its not possible to ignore this failure
             -- because its made by the http-conduit inside the proxy.
-            BS.take 12 (resultBS result) `shouldBe` "TlsException"
+            BS.take 13 (resultBS result) `shouldBe` "HttpException"
     it "Can provide a proxy Response." $
         withTestProxy proxySettingsProxyResponse $ \ testProxyPort -> do
             req <- addTestProxy testProxyPort <$> mkGetRequest Http "/whatever"
diff --git a/http-proxy.cabal b/http-proxy.cabal
--- a/http-proxy.cabal
+++ b/http-proxy.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:           http-proxy
-Version:        0.1.0.2
+Version:        0.1.0.3
 License:        BSD3
 License-file:   LICENSE
 Author:         Michael Snoyman, Erik de Castro Lopo
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@
                    , case-insensitive        >= 1.2
                    , conduit                 >= 1.2
                    , conduit-extra           >= 1.1
-                   , http-client             >= 0.4         && < 0.5
-                   , http-conduit            >= 2.1.7       && < 2.2
+                   , http-client             >= 0.5         && < 0.6
+                   , http-conduit            >= 2.2         && < 2.3
                    , http-types              >= 0.8
                    , mtl                     >= 2.1
                    , network                 >= 2.6