diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 1.1.4
+
+* Add `MonadResource ExceptT` instance [#198](https://github.com/snoyberg/conduit/pull/198)
+
 ## 1.1.3.2
 
 monad-control-1.0 support [#191](https://github.com/snoyberg/conduit/pull/191)
diff --git a/Control/Monad/Trans/Resource/Internal.hs b/Control/Monad/Trans/Resource/Internal.hs
--- a/Control/Monad/Trans/Resource/Internal.hs
+++ b/Control/Monad/Trans/Resource/Internal.hs
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 import Control.Monad.Trans.List     ( ListT    )
 import Control.Monad.Trans.Maybe    ( MaybeT   )
 import Control.Monad.Trans.Error    ( ErrorT, Error)
+import Control.Monad.Trans.Except   ( ExceptT  )
 import Control.Monad.Trans.Reader   ( ReaderT  )
 import Control.Monad.Trans.State    ( StateT   )
 import Control.Monad.Trans.Writer   ( WriterT  )
@@ -284,6 +285,7 @@
 GO(ListT)
 GO(MaybeT)
 GOX(Error e, ErrorT e)
+GO(ExceptT e)
 GO(ReaderT r)
 GO(ContT r)
 GO(StateT s)
diff --git a/resourcet.cabal b/resourcet.cabal
--- a/resourcet.cabal
+++ b/resourcet.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                resourcet
-Version:             1.1.3.3
+Version:             1.1.4
 Synopsis:            Deterministic allocation and freeing of scarce resources.
 description:         Hackage documentation generation is not reliable. For up to date documentation, please see: <http://www.stackage.org/package/resourcet>.
 License:             BSD3
@@ -19,13 +19,14 @@
                        Data.Acquire.Internal
   Build-depends:       base                     >= 4.3          && < 5
                      , lifted-base              >= 0.1
-                     , transformers-base        >= 0.4.1        && < 0.5
+                     , transformers-base        >= 0.4.4        && < 0.5
                      , monad-control            >= 0.3.1        && < 1.1
                      , containers
                      , transformers             >= 0.2.2        && < 0.5
+                     , transformers-compat      >= 0.3          && < 0.5
                      , mtl                      >= 2.0          && < 2.3
                      , mmorph
-                     , exceptions               >= 0.5
+                     , exceptions               >= 0.8
   ghc-options:     -Wall
 
 test-suite test