diff --git a/Database/Redis/ByteStringClass.hs b/Database/Redis/ByteStringClass.hs
--- a/Database/Redis/ByteStringClass.hs
+++ b/Database/Redis/ByteStringClass.hs
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 import Data.ByteString
 import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L
 import qualified Data.ByteString.UTF8 as U
-import Data.Binary
 
 -- | Utility class for conversion to and from Strict ByteString
 class BS a where
@@ -17,8 +16,8 @@
     fromBS = id
 
 instance BS L.ByteString where
-    toBS   = concat . L.toChunks . encode
-    fromBS = decode . L.fromChunks . return
+    toBS   = concat . L.toChunks
+    fromBS = L.fromChunks . return
 
 instance BS String where
     toBS   = U.fromString
diff --git a/redis.cabal b/redis.cabal
--- a/redis.cabal
+++ b/redis.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                redis
-Version:             0.3
+Version:             0.3.1
 License:             MIT
 Maintainer:          Alexander Bogdanov <andorn@gmail.com>
 Author:              Alexander Bogdanov <andorn@gmail.com>
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 Library
     Build-Depends:       base < 5, bytestring, utf8-string,
-                         network, mtl, old-time, binary
+                         network, mtl, old-time
     Exposed-modules:     Database.Redis.Redis
                          Database.Redis.Monad
                          Database.Redis.ByteStringClass