diff --git a/shelly.cabal b/shelly.cabal
--- a/shelly.cabal
+++ b/shelly.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:       shelly
 
-Version:     1.6.0
+Version:     1.6.0.1
 Synopsis:    shell-like (systems) programming in Haskell
 
 Description: Shelly provides convenient systems programming in Haskell,
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     monad-control             >= 0.3.2 && < 1.1,
     lifted-base,
     lifted-async,
-    exceptions                == 0.6.*,
+    exceptions                >= 0.6 && < 0.9,
     enclosed-exceptions,
     text, bytestring, async, transformers, transformers-base