diff --git a/incipit-base.cabal b/incipit-base.cabal
--- a/incipit-base.cabal
+++ b/incipit-base.cabal
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 
 name:           incipit-base
-version:        0.7.0.0
+version:        0.7.0.1
 synopsis:       A Prelude for Polysemy – Base Reexports
 description:    See https://hackage.haskell.org/package/incipit-base/docs/IncipitBase.html
 category:       Prelude
@@ -113,9 +113,9 @@
       ViewPatterns
   ghc-options: -Wall -Widentities -Wincomplete-uni-patterns -Wmissing-deriving-strategies -Wredundant-constraints -Wunused-type-patterns -Wunused-packages
   build-depends:
-      base >=4.18.3.0 && <4.22
+      base >=4.17.2.1 && <4.22
     , bytestring >=0.11.1.0 && <0.13
-    , containers >=0.6.5.1 && <0.9
+    , containers >=0.6.3.1 && <0.9
     , data-default >=0.2 && <0.9
     , stm >=2.5.1.0 && <2.6
     , text >=2.0.2 && <2.2
diff --git a/lib/Incipit/List.hs b/lib/Incipit/List.hs
--- a/lib/Incipit/List.hs
+++ b/lib/Incipit/List.hs
@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@
 tail :: [a] -> Maybe [a]
 tail = \case
   [] -> Nothing
-  as -> Just (List.tail as)
+  _ : as -> Just as
 {-# inline tail #-}