diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 
+Version 0.4.6.1
+---------------
+Bumped the containers dependency upper bounds
+
 Version 0.4.6
 ---------------
 Added the Semigroup instances to fix the compilation errors with base-4.11
diff --git a/monoid-subclasses.cabal b/monoid-subclasses.cabal
--- a/monoid-subclasses.cabal
+++ b/monoid-subclasses.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                monoid-subclasses
-Version:             0.4.6
+Version:             0.4.6.1
 Cabal-Version:       >= 1.10
 Build-Type:          Simple
 Synopsis:            Subclasses of Monoid
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
                      Data.Monoid.Instances.ByteString.UTF8, Data.Monoid.Instances.Concat,
                      Data.Monoid.Instances.Measured, Data.Monoid.Instances.Positioned, Data.Monoid.Instances.Stateful
   Build-Depends:     base >= 4.9 && < 5,
-                     bytestring >= 0.9 && < 1.0, containers >= 0.5.7.0 && < 0.6, text >= 0.11 && < 1.3,
+                     bytestring >= 0.9 && < 1.0, containers >= 0.5.7.0 && < 0.7, text >= 0.11 && < 1.3,
                      primes == 0.2.*, vector >= 0.9 && < 0.13
   GHC-options:       -Wall
   default-language:  Haskell2010
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 test-suite Main
   Type:              exitcode-stdio-1.0
   Build-Depends:     base >= 4.9 && < 5,
-                     bytestring >= 0.9 && < 1.0, containers >= 0.5.7.0 && < 0.6, text >= 0.11 && < 1.3,
+                     bytestring >= 0.9 && < 1.0, containers >= 0.5.7.0 && < 0.7, text >= 0.11 && < 1.3,
                      vector >= 0.9 && < 0.13, primes == 0.2.*,
                      QuickCheck >= 2.9 && < 3, quickcheck-instances >= 0.3.12 && <0.4,
                      tasty >= 0.7, tasty-quickcheck >= 0.7 && < 1.0,