diff --git a/Base.hs b/Base.hs
--- a/Base.hs
+++ b/Base.hs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 Types and settings.
 
-Copyright (c) Don Stewart 2008-2009, Simon Michael 2009-2011
+Copyright (c) Don Stewart 2008-2009, Simon Michael 2009-2014
 License: BSD3.
 
 -}
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+1.0.6 (2014/4/13)
+
+* minimal changes to build with feed 0.3.9.* and other libs in current Debian unstable (sid)
+
 1.0.5 (2014/2/27)
 
 * avoid feed 0.3.9.2 which has changed its API
diff --git a/Feed.hs b/Feed.hs
--- a/Feed.hs
+++ b/Feed.hs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 Feed stuff.
 
-Copyright (c) Don Stewart 2008-2009, Simon Michael 2009-2011
+Copyright (c) Don Stewart 2008-2009, Simon Michael 2009-2014
 License: BSD3.
 
 -}
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     (==) a b = let match f = f a == f b in
                all match [getItemTitle
                          ,getItemLink
-                         ,getItemPublishDate
+                         ,getItemPublishDateString
                          ,getItemDate
                          ,getItemAuthor
                          ,getItemCommentLink
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
          when (debug_feed opts) $ logPoll fetched announceable polls numannounced
          -- start iterating
          let seen = map (\i -> (itemId i, fromMaybe "" $ getItemTitle i)) fetched
-             lastpubdate = maybe Nothing getItemPublishDate $ headMay unique
+             lastpubdate = maybe Nothing getItemPublishDateString $ headMay unique
          putSharedVar appvar $ maybeDecrementIterationsLeft app
          feedReaderPoll appvar polls seen lastpubdate numannounced
 
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
          -- detect announceable items
          let seenids = map fst seen
              hasunseenid = (`notElem` seenids).itemId
-             hasnewerdate = (`isNewerThan` lastpubdate).getItemPublishDate
+             hasnewerdate = (`isNewerThan` lastpubdate).getItemPublishDateString
              isunseenandnewer i = hasnewerdate i && hasunseenid i
              isprevioustop = (== head seenids).itemId
              announceable = (if allow_duplicates opts then id else (elideDuplicates seen)) $
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
          let polls' = polls + 1
              seen' = take windowsize $ (map (\i -> (itemId i, fromMaybe "" $ getItemTitle i)) fetched)
                                        ++ seen where windowsize = 200
-             lastpubdate' = maybe lastpubdate getItemPublishDate $ headMay announceable
+             lastpubdate' = maybe lastpubdate getItemPublishDateString $ headMay announceable
              numannounced' = numannounced + fromIntegral (length announceable)
          putSharedVar appvar $ maybeDecrementIterationsLeft app
          when (debug_feed opts) $ logPoll fetched announceable polls' numannounced'
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@
       count = length is
       fields = [(d, if p==d then "" :: String else printf "  pubdate:%-29s" p, t, i) | item <- is
                ,let d = fromMaybe "" $ getItemDate item
-               ,let p = fromMaybe "" $ getItemPublishDate item
+               ,let p = fromMaybe "" $ getItemPublishDateString item
                ,let t = fromMaybe "" $ getItemTitle item
                ,let i = maybe "" show $ getItemId item
                ]
diff --git a/Irc.hs b/Irc.hs
--- a/Irc.hs
+++ b/Irc.hs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 IRC stuff
 
-Copyright (c) Don Stewart 2008-2009, Simon Michael 2009-2011
+Copyright (c) Don Stewart 2008-2009, Simon Michael 2009-2014
 License: BSD3.
 
 -}
diff --git a/Utils.hs b/Utils.hs
--- a/Utils.hs
+++ b/Utils.hs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 Common utilities.
 
-Copyright (c) Don Stewart 2008-2009, Simon Michael 2009-2011
+Copyright (c) Don Stewart 2008-2009, Simon Michael 2009-2014
 License: BSD3.
 
 -}
diff --git a/rss2irc.cabal b/rss2irc.cabal
--- a/rss2irc.cabal
+++ b/rss2irc.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                rss2irc
-version:             1.0.5
+version:             1.0.6
 homepage:            http://hackage.haskell.org/package/rss2irc
 license:             BSD3
 license-file:        LICENSE
@@ -35,8 +35,9 @@
                     ,containers
                     ,deepseq
                     ,irc                   >= 0.5 && < 0.6
-                    ,feed                  >= 0.3.8 && < 0.3.9.2
-                    ,http-conduit          >= 1.9 && < 2.0
+                    ,feed                  >= 0.3.9 && < 0.3.10
+                    ,http-client           >= 0.2.1 && < 0.2.3
+                    ,http-conduit          >= 1.9 && < 2.1
                     ,resourcet             >= 0.4.4 && < 0.5
                     ,http-types            >= 0.6.4 && < 0.9
                     ,io-storage            >= 0.3 && < 0.4
diff --git a/rss2irc.hs b/rss2irc.hs
--- a/rss2irc.hs
+++ b/rss2irc.hs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 {- |
 rss2irc - watches an RSS/Atom feed and writes it to an IRC channel.
 
-Copyright (c) Don Stewart 2008-2009, Simon Michael 2009-2011
+Copyright (c) Don Stewart 2008-2009, Simon Michael 2009-2014
 License: BSD3.
 -}
 --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
 import Data.Time.Clock (getCurrentTime)
 import Prelude hiding (log)
 import Network (withSocketsDo)
-import Network.HTTP.Conduit (newManager, def)
+import Network.HTTP.Client (defaultManagerSettings)
+import Network.HTTP.Conduit (newManager)
 import System.Console.CmdArgs
 import System.Exit (ExitCode(ExitSuccess), exitFailure, exitSuccess)
 import System.IO
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@
  withStore "globals" $ do -- for readFeedFile
   -- http-conduit stuff
   withSocketsDo $ do -- for ms windows
-   manager <- io $ newManager Network.HTTP.Conduit.def
+   manager <- io $ newManager defaultManagerSettings
    (opts,reader,bot) <- getRss2IrcArgs
    let app = App{aOpts=opts,aReader=reader{httpManager=Just manager},aBot=bot}
    when (delay opts > 0) $ threadDelay $ (delay opts) * minutes