diff --git a/stateWriter.cabal b/stateWriter.cabal
--- a/stateWriter.cabal
+++ b/stateWriter.cabal
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 -- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
 
 name:                stateWriter
-version:             0.2.7
+version:             0.2.8
 synopsis:            A faster variant of the RWS monad transformers.
 description:         This is a version of the RWS monad transformers that should be much faster than what's found in transformers. The writer in the strict version does not leak memory.
 license:             BSD3
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   ghc-prof-options:    -caf-all -auto-all
   -- other-modules:
   other-extensions:    FlexibleInstances, MultiParamTypeClasses
-  build-depends:       base >=4.6 && < 4.9, transformers >=0.3 && <0.5, mtl >=2.1 && <2.3
+  build-depends:       base >=4.6 && < 4.10, transformers >=0.3 && <0.6, mtl >=2.1 && <2.3
   -- hs-source-dirs:
   default-language:    Haskell2010