diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 For the latest version of this document, please see
 [https://github.com/DougBurke/hvega/blob/master/hvega/CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/DougBurke/hvega/blob/master/hvega/CHANGELOG.md).
 
+## 0.12.0.2
+
+Bump to support text version 2.0. All hail our new UTF-8 rulers.
+
 ## 0.12.0.1
 
 Bump to support bytestring version 0.11 for testing `hvega`. There
diff --git a/hvega.cabal b/hvega.cabal
--- a/hvega.cabal
+++ b/hvega.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                hvega
-version:             0.12.0.1
+version:             0.12.0.2
 synopsis:            Create Vega-Lite visualizations (version 4) in Haskell.
 description:         This is based on the elm-vegalite package
                      (<http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/gicentre/elm-vegalite/latest>)
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
                        Graphics.Vega.VegaLite.Transform
   build-depends:       base >= 4.9 && < 5
                      , aeson >= 0.11 && < 2.1
-                     , text == 1.2.*
+                     , text >= 1.2 && < 2.1
                      , unordered-containers == 0.2.*
 
   default-language:    Haskell2010
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
                      , filepath
                      , tasty
                      , tasty-golden >= 2.2 && < 2.4
-                     , text == 1.2.*
+                     , text
                      , unordered-containers >= 0.2 && < 0.3
                      -- hvega is not needed with recent cabal's, but it's
                      -- not obvious if this is true with older versions
diff --git a/src/Graphics/Vega/VegaLite.hs b/src/Graphics/Vega/VegaLite.hs
--- a/src/Graphics/Vega/VegaLite.hs
+++ b/src/Graphics/Vega/VegaLite.hs
@@ -855,6 +855,7 @@
 
          -- ** Version 0.12
          --
+         -- $update01202
          -- $update01201
          -- $update01200
          
@@ -1268,6 +1269,10 @@
 -- $update
 -- The following section describes how to update code that used
 -- an older version of @hvega@.
+
+-- $update01202
+-- The @0.12.0.2@ release adds support for version 2.0 of the text package.
+-- There are no changes to the code.
 
 -- $update01201
 -- The @0.12.0.1@ release is purely to support bytestring 0.11 when