diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
-### 0.7.2
+## 0.8.0
 
-- Added support for transformers-0.5.
+- Added support for either-4.5. This support breaks compatibility as we don’t have `EitherT`
+  anymore. If you used it, please fall back to `ExceptT`, which has the same interface.
 
 ### 0.7.1
 
diff --git a/Control/Monad/Journal/Class.hs b/Control/Monad/Journal/Class.hs
--- a/Control/Monad/Journal/Class.hs
+++ b/Control/Monad/Journal/Class.hs
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
 import Control.Monad ( Monad )
 import Control.Monad.Trans ( MonadIO, MonadTrans, lift, liftIO )
-import Control.Monad.Trans.Either ( EitherT )
+import Control.Monad.Trans.Except ( ExceptT )
 import Control.Monad.Trans.Identity ( IdentityT )
 import Control.Monad.Trans.List ( ListT )
 import Control.Monad.Trans.Maybe ( MaybeT )
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
   history    = lift history
   clear      = lift clear
 
-instance  (Monad m, Monoid w, MonadJournal w m) => MonadJournal w (EitherT e m) where
+instance  (Monad m, Monoid w, MonadJournal w m) => MonadJournal w (ExceptT e m) where
   journal !w = lift (journal w)
   history    = lift history
   clear      = lift clear
diff --git a/monad-journal.cabal b/monad-journal.cabal
--- a/monad-journal.cabal
+++ b/monad-journal.cabal
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name:                monad-journal
 license:             BSD3
 license-file:        LICENSE
-version:             0.7.2
+version:             0.8.0
 synopsis:            Pure logger typeclass and monad transformer
 description:         This package provides a typeclass for logging in
                      pure code, or more generally, in any kind of
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
   build-depends:           base              >= 4.5   && < 5.0
                          , mtl               >= 2.1   && < 2.3
                          , transformers      >= 0.3   && < 0.6
-                         , either            >= 4.1   && < 4.5
+                         , either            >= 4.1   && < 4.6
                          , monad-control     >= 0.3   && < 1.1
                          , transformers-base >= 0.4   && < 0.5