diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# 1.3.0
+
+* Now depends on `systemd >= 209`. These versions of `systemd` feature the
+  `journald` functions in the `systemd` library.
+
 # 1.2.0
 
 * Builds with base 4.7
diff --git a/libsystemd-journal.cabal b/libsystemd-journal.cabal
--- a/libsystemd-journal.cabal
+++ b/libsystemd-journal.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                libsystemd-journal
-version:             1.2.0
+version:             1.3.0
 synopsis:            Haskell bindings to libsystemd-journal
 homepage:            http://github.com/ocharles/libsystemd-journal
 license:             BSD3
@@ -19,5 +19,4 @@
   build-depends:       base >=4.6 && <4.8, bytestring >= 0.9.1, pipes >= 4.0, pipes-safe >= 2.0, text >= 0.1 && < 1.2, transformers >= 0.3, unix-bytestring >= 0.3.2 && < 0.4, vector >= 0.4 && < 0.11, uuid, unordered-containers >= 0.1 && < 0.3, hashable >= 1.1.2.5, hsyslog, uniplate >= 1.6
   hs-source-dirs:      src
   default-language:    Haskell2010
-  extra-libraries: systemd-journal
-  ghc-options: -Wall
+  pkgconfig-depends: libsystemd >= 209