diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 
+### 2.0.20
+* Restore allowing GHC to detect changes to i18n message files in GHC >= 8.4.
+
 ### 2.0.19
 * Change of the default behaviour of `*File` functions, they now will add their templates' source file to ghc-dependencies, thus recompiling on templates' changes.
 
diff --git a/Text/Shakespeare/I18N.hs b/Text/Shakespeare/I18N.hs
--- a/Text/Shakespeare/I18N.hs
+++ b/Text/Shakespeare/I18N.hs
@@ -154,7 +154,8 @@
 mkMessageCommon genType prefix postfix master dt folder lang = do
     files <- qRunIO $ getDirectoryContents folder
     let files' = filter (`notElem` [".", ".."]) files
-    (_files', contents) <- qRunIO $ fmap (unzip . catMaybes) $ mapM (loadLang folder) files'
+    (filess, contents) <- qRunIO $ fmap (unzip . catMaybes) $ mapM (loadLang folder) files'
+    (mapM_.mapM_) addDependentFile filess
     let contents' = Map.toList $ Map.fromListWith (++) contents
     sdef <-
         case lookup lang contents' of
diff --git a/shakespeare.cabal b/shakespeare.cabal
--- a/shakespeare.cabal
+++ b/shakespeare.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:            shakespeare
-version:         2.0.19
+version:         2.0.20
 license:         MIT
 license-file:    LICENSE
 author:          Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>