diff --git a/rest-types.cabal b/rest-types.cabal
--- a/rest-types.cabal
+++ b/rest-types.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:             rest-types
-Version:          1.9.0.1
+Version:          1.9.0.2
 Description:      Silk Rest Framework Types
 Synopsis:         Silk Rest Framework Types
 Maintainer:       code@silk.co
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     , mtl >= 2.0 && < 2.2
     , regular == 0.3.*
     , regular-xmlpickler == 0.2.*
-    , text == 0.11.*
+    , text >= 0.11 && < 1.2
     , tostring == 0.2.*
     , unordered-containers == 0.2.*
     , utf8-string == 0.3.*