diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Revision history for large-generics
 
+## 0.2.2 -- 2024-05-30
+
+* Support ghc 9.6 (and drop ghc <= 8.8)
+  [together with Tristan Cacqueray and Gabriele Sales]
+
 ## 0.2.1 -- 2023-03-06
 
 * Support ghc 9.4
diff --git a/large-generics.cabal b/large-generics.cabal
--- a/large-generics.cabal
+++ b/large-generics.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cabal-version:      2.4
 name:               large-generics
-version:            0.2.1
+version:            0.2.2
 synopsis:           Generic programming API for large-records and large-anon
 description:        The large-generics package offers a style of generic
                     programming inspired by generics-sop, but optimized for
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 maintainer:         edsko@well-typed.com
 category:           Generics
 extra-source-files: CHANGELOG.md
-tested-with:        GHC ==8.8.4 || ==8.10.7 || ==9.0.2 || ==9.2.7 || ==9.4.4
+tested-with:        GHC ==8.10.7 || ==9.2.8 || ==9.4.8 || ==9.6.4
 
 library
   exposed-modules:
@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@
   hs-source-dirs:
       src
   build-depends:
-      base         >= 4.13  && < 4.18
-    , aeson        >= 1.4.4 && < 2.2
-    , deepseq      >= 1.4.4 && < 1.5
+      base         >= 4.14  && < 4.19
+    , aeson        >= 1.4.4 && < 2.3
+    , deepseq      >= 1.4.4 && < 1.6
     , generics-sop >= 0.5   && < 0.6
     , sop-core     >= 0.5   && < 0.6
-    , primitive    >= 0.7   && < 0.8
+    , primitive    >= 0.8   && < 0.10
 
   if impl(ghc >= 8.10)
     ghc-options: -Wunused-packages